Oct 26, 2012

Ahnuld will be back as Conan

I ooze "Nordic Viking mythic guy"
Ahnuld's attempt to re-ignite his Hollywood career in the aftermath of all those years spent not-nurturuing his illegitimate offspring in Sacramento has devolved into the farcical with the announcement that he's going to return to one of his earliest roles; Conan. The self-admitted sexy sexagenarian will play the (once) buff Nordic tough guy in what amounts to a reboot of the reboot of the Conan franchise that will pretend that both the second Conan film (The Destroyer) and the 2011 reboot with Jason Momoa never actually happened.

Here's the premise according to Fredrik Malmberg the CEO of Paradox Entertainment, which holds the rights to Conan: “The original ended with Arnold on the throne as a seasoned warrior, and this is the take of the film we will make... It’s that Nordic Viking mythic guy who has played the role of king, warrior, soldier and mercenary, and who has bedded more women than anyone, nearing the last cycle of his life. He knows he’ll be going to Valhalla, and wants to go out with a good battle.”

"Seasoned" in this case means "old" so the only issue to me seems to be this: since "The Expendables 2" proved Ahnuld couldn't do action any more will this Conan time travel to the future in order to bring back automatic weapons with which to defeat his mythic foes and earn his place in Valhalla? Or maybe the unwanted spawn of all those babes he's bedded will rise up and come to their no good, absentee dad's defense in order insure he's around to pay child support. Now that's a movie I'd pay to see!

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