Arnold Schwarzenegger will reprise his role as Conan the Barbarian in a new film directed by filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, the website Entertainment Weekly revealed.
King Conan, which will be the third film in the Conan franchise, will be written and directed by McQuarrie. He has spent the last decade focused on his work on the four most recent films in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Based on the work of author Robert E. Howard, the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian featured Schwarzenegger as the heroic warrior, marking the big screen debut for the then-bodybuilder. The sequel, Conan the Destroyer, arrived in 1984, a few months before The Terminator.
Schwarzenegger spoke about the idea for the film King Conan during a conversation at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend. “It’s a great story in which Conan has been [king for] 40 years, and he becomes complacent, and now he is forced to leave the kingdom slowly,” he said.
“Then there is conflict, and somehow he comes back, and then there are all kinds of madness and violence and magic and creatures. Now, of course, you have all the special effects, and the studio system has a lot of money to make these movies really big.”
At the same event, Schwarzenegger also revealed that he spoke with the filmmaker behind Prey and Predator: Badlands, Dan Tratchenberg, about returning to the Predator universe.
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