Trailer 2. Teaser Trailer. Clip Conan the Barbarian. Photos Top cast Edit. Jason Momoa Conan as Conan. Ron Perlman Corin as Corin. Rose McGowan Marique as Marique. Rachel Nichols Tamara as Tamara. Bob Sapp Ukafa as Ukafa. Steven O'Donnell Lucius as Lucius. Nonso Anozie Artus as Artus. Raad Rawi Fassir as Fassir. Laila Rouass Fialla as Fialla. Milton Welsh Remo as Remo. Nathan Jones Akhun as Akhun. Ioan Karamfilov Donal as Donal. Marcus Nispel.
More like this. Watch options. Pictish Scout. Sacrificial Snake Girl. Osric's Guard. Turanian War Officer as Erick Holmey. Mongol General. Conan's Mother. Thorgrim as Sven Ole Thorsen. Sword Master. Orgy Slave Girl uncredited. Man uncredited. Black Lotus Street Peddler uncredited. Pit Fighter uncredited. Osric's Guard uncredited. Breeding Woman uncredited. Beautiful Woman Jumping to her Death uncredited. Guerrera uncredited. Conan swore by a god named Crom, but didn't exactly worship him, because Crom was a colder, more distant god than that.
Howard would go on to write a total of 17 Conan stories and novellas for Weird Tales , with the latter being serialized across multiple issues. An 18th Conan story by Howard was published in the magazine Fantasy Fan. By , his interests as a writer had largely turned to Westerns, but that same year, upon learning that his mother was dying of tuberculosis and not expected to regain consciousness, Robert E. Howard died by suicide. The Conan stories remain Howard's enduring legacy.
They were extremely influential among other pulp writers, and gave rise to the "Sword and Sorcery" subgenre of fantasy, marked by violent morally gray heroes, gritty — often personal — battles, and often at least a hint of sex, as opposed to the pure heroes and world-saving quests of more conventional fantasy. Conan would move from magazine racks to bookshelves in the s, with a series of collections by Gnome Press. Another author, L. Sprague de Camp, revised the Howard Conan stories for these books and completed some unfinished stories, even rewriting some non-Conan Howard stories to make them about Conan.
De Camp also revised Nyberg's book, giving the whole series a sense of cohesion. In the late s, a publisher called Lancer got the rights to publish Conan in paperback, and it was these editions that would really cement the barbarian hero as part of pop culture.
Of the 12 books published first by Lancer and then by Ace Books after Lancer went out of business, eight of them had painted covers by Frank Frazetta, who gave Conan his iconic look and cemented his own reputation as one of the greatest fantasy artists of the 20th century in the process.
In , Roy Thomas was the executive editor of Marvel Comics. Over the course of the s, Marvel had become hugely popular with college students and other readers somewhat older than previous comic books had catered to. As Thomas has explained in interviews , they would frequently get letters asking them to publish comics based on properties they didn't own, and one name that kept coming up was Conan. Thomas was a Frazetta fan who owned some of the paperbacks, but he hadn't really read them.
Once he did, he realized how good Howard's stories were, and wrote to an address in one of the paperbacks asking if they'd license Conan to Marvel. The answer was yes, and Conan The Barbarian issue 1 was published in October Roy Thomas himself wrote the comics, with talented newcomer Barry Windsor-Smith on art. As a duo their run on the character would become legendary in its own right, and over the course of the s Conan became closely associated with Marvel.
The success of Conan the Barbarian led to the launch of Savage Sword of Conan , a magazine-sized black and white comic that allowed for more adult stories. Thomas wrote the first 60 issues of that book too, this time joined by penciler John Buscema and inker Alfredo Alcala, among others.
Both Barbarian and Savage Sword would last until the s, with other Conan spinoffs along the way. With Conan's popularity through the roof after more than a decade as a Marvel Comics star, it was only a matter of time before the Cimmerian wanderer made his way to the silver screen. It took several years for producers to get the movie made, but they knew early on that they wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger , then known mainly as a bodybuilder who'd appeared in the documentary Pumping Iron.
His improbable build made him a perfect Conan, and the barbarian had never been verbose enough for Schwarzenegger's Austrian accent to be much of a hindrance. Anyway, Conan was always meant to be from a foreign land. John Milius directed Conan the Barbarian , which was released in to some box office success, and it also became a big hit in the emerging medium of home video.
The story and characters strayed considerably from Howard's version of Conan, and they certainly had nothing to do with the Marvel comics, but Conan was still recognizable, and the adaptation was considered a success.
It also made a Hollywood movie star out of an Austrian bodybuilder, enabling Schwarzenegger to move on to The Terminator , Commando , and Predator in quick succession. When it came time to make a Conan sequel, to be titled Conan the Destroyer , the producers wanted something less violent that could be rated PG rather than R, which they figured would make more money.
I'll take the influential point no problems, but I'd love it if someone could explain why they're so highly rated. I'm wondering if it's because a lot of people probably male read Conan as teenagers and remember him with huge fondness, but would be surprised if they went back to the stories today.
They're fun, but they're so simplistic — Jane Gaskell does the same ancient-world-peopled-by-barbarians-and-gods thing so much better in the Cija books. Anyone read those, by the way? They might be utterly ludicrous too, but Gaskell writes better, thinks deeper and has a pinch of tongue-in-cheek to her. I read Gaskell when I was 14 — I swear she's still good today, though — and spent a couple of weeks saying "Oh gods" to myself, as Cija does, as I thought she was so cool.
Any of you out there ever swear by Crom? I think my next choice will be a female writer; the balance needs to be redressed a little. Death's Master by Tanith Lee , perhaps?
As far as I can see, Lee is the only woman to have ever won a British Fantasy award , which is shocking.
I'm open to suggestions, however — and I promise that this time around I'll be much quicker to get cracking.
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