Looks like Netflix want some more of that Witcher money as they jump into the world of Conan the Barbarian.
Word is that Netflix have made a deal with the Robert E Howard estate and Conan Properties International, giving them the ‘exclusive option to acquire rights to the Conan literary library and develop works across TV and film, both live-action and animated’.
Netflix have a new strategy of looking for properties that will allow them to build a universe on their service, meaning the audience gets what the want and the streamer gets an inbuilt audience. They’re also developing IPs based on Roald Dahl’s novels, The Chronicles of Narnia books and comics publisher Millarworld.
The Conan deal is still early in development with no writers, stars or directors in place yet, so it could be a while before we hear more on this story.
Pulp fiction author Howard introduced Conan the Barbarian, aka Conan the Cimmerian, in a series of short stories, first published in 1932 in Weird Tales magazine. The Conan stories ushered in a new genre of writing: Sword and Sorcery. Through the years the original tales have inspired over a thousand comic books, one hundred novels, three feature films, two television series, multiple video games, and a vast range of collectibles, toys, and more, worldwide.
It will certainly be interesting to see who nabs the role which has famously been played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 80s movies and then by Jason Momoa in the 2011 reboot. There was also short-lived animated and live-action shows unrelated to either movie franchise and Amazon was developing a series a few years ago but it, obviously, never came to anything.
So, are you excited for a Conan series? Let me know if you’ll be in live for this when it hits in a few years.
Source: Deadline
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