It may be stretching the mandate of this blog a bit, but Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery tales were filled with so many eldritch horrors I think I can get away with it.

After years of langushing at Warner Bros., the rights to Conan have been transferred to New Line Cinema. This is potentially great news, as people tell me that New Line showed a great deal of patience and respect in bringing an adaptation of Lord of the Rings to the screen. While I’m one of the few Howard enthusiasts who actually enjoyed the Milius version of Conan, and I’m still hopeful that Arnold Schwarzenegger could return as Conan the King, I welcome the opporunity to start fresh with true adaptations of Howard’s work.

But most of all I relish the idea that this could spawn numerous rip-offs. I think this is just the thing to bring the Italian genre film industry back to its former glory.

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