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.
WHAT!!! How the hell can a hawaiian/native american play a cimmerion barbarian??? Conan is white as white can be, hes a friggin northman for cryin out loud. This is ridiculous. This is like makin Shaka Zulu movie with Dolph Lundgren playin Shaka, Oh I forgot, that would be racist.
i would like to say that the 1st conan movie was not all that good!it had its good points but the acting sucked.arnold did not look like conan.if anyone reads the comic and looks at the pictures he looks more like an native american with his tanned skin and dark hair.MR.MOMOA looks more like conan than SIR ARNOLD and he can act a hell of alot better.i just hope they stay true to what the fans want to see.oh and for the 2nd conan movie that just sucked!if they do it right this will be epic!hey MOMOA you look like the part so bring it!!!!!!!!you could have spent more time in the gym though!
Actually Oscar, the Cimmerians where not northmen. They where based on the Celts (the Aesir and Vanir where the northmen). And Conan himself was frequently described in the stories as having a deep sunbaked tan. As well as long black hair, and the face of a tiger.
Mamoa has all of these qualities, hopefully that plus acting ability will make for a good movie (and make up for the fact that he’s not as huge as Conan should be).
I still wish that they’d cast Jarhed Padelecky (Sam from Supernatural), but I don’t think Mamoa will kill the movie.
Yes a tanned Celt. Arnold is much closer to that than a Hawaiian/native American.There is so much PC crap in Hollywood they had to build special sewage treatment plant.
Hey Frank and Oscar please enlighten the world why Heimdall in Thor is black I want to here your stretch of truth for that.
You morons
Conan have bleue eyes and tanned skin and I agree Oscar Yeager and Mike: he doesn’t look like an asian!
Yeah. Black Heimdall was very silly / too PC.
I was initially like, “oh, they made him black, like Kingpin or Nick Fury”, then just sat back and enjoyed the film.
It wasn’t til I left the cinema that it sunk in just how #@%*ing absurd that is.
Black. Nordic. God… um, riiiiight…
Back to Conan though, Momoa is good casting. The Cimmerian is not just a beefcake, he is athletic, a stealthy thief, a climber etc…
A bodybuilder is not practical on the battlefield.
The bronze skin is fine too, Conan is a ‘white man’ only in that he is not african, asian or middle eastern in features.
Remarkably, the movie gets bad immediately and stays that way. One of its most jarring aspects is that it begins with Morgan Freeman’s narration, which sounds so utterly out of place, with his comforting, slightly Southern drawl the total opposite of everything bloody and Cimmerian, that it instantly comes across like self-parody, as if we were seeing some schticky Mel Brooks interpretation after the fact. This ham-handed disregard for appropriate tone haunts every frame of the film.