Ahnold Passes The Torch Of Conan
There isn’t a man alive who didn’t love Conan, and Arnold playing Conan, back in the ’80s. We all wanted to be both… but just lacked the intestinal fortitude and due diligence needed to manifest such a beast of a body. Especially when there were hundreds of hours of Gilligan’s Island and Brady Bunch, to watch.
If you needed a reminder of how cool both were, way back then, then here’s a little YouTube vid.
Well, Arnold may be a legend, but even legends need to recognize that the world needs a new actor to fill the boots that Robert E. Howard created. The new Conan to be is Jason Momoa, the guy who plays the dreadlock-wearing Ronon Dex on Stargate Atlantis. Momoa is currently in negotiations with the Conan the Barbarian team. If you’re like me, and you’ve never watched any of the umpteen Stargates, except for the 1994 movie, then you won’t know anything about Jason Momoa. But after doing a quick search for him on YouTube, I found this.
Jason Momoa Is Conan
I actually think Momoa can pull it off. The Hawaiian/German-Irish-Native American is a massive 6′5″ tall. If he added another 20 pounds of muscle, he’d be the perfect shoe-in for Conan. In the vid above, you actually see some of his sword play.
Leo Howard is Young Conan
The actor who will play Conan as a child is none other than the black belt pre-teen Leo Howard who played a young Snake Eyes in flashback scenes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. And yes, Howard does actually have a black belt.
Also from the G.I. Joe team is smokin’ hot actress Rachel Nichols, she was red headed, uber-brainiac Scarlet.
I can’t friggin’ wait!!
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“Conan, What is Best in Life!” - “To crush your enemy, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women”.
How can you not love that! I am a huge Conan fan. Loved the first movie, read a bunch of the books and continue to get and read the comics. I have been waiting for something to come along and make up for that festering pile they called Conan the Destroyer. I hope this new movie is good but I just don’t know about Momoa being the new Conan. I liked him in Stargate Atlantis but I think he works better as a supporting character. I don’t know, we will see, I hope he proves me wrong. I will be crushed if the new movie isn’t great.