Sneak Peek "Conan The Barbarian"

Sneak Peek the new teaser trailer supporting the upcoming 3D feature "Conan The Barbarian".

Starring Jason Momoa as the 'Cimmerian' warrior, the new film adapts the adventures of author Robert E. Howard's "Conan", set during the 'Hyborian' age.

Directed by Marcus Nispel, "Conan The Barbarian" co-stars Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Bob Sapp, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman, Said Taghmaoui and Rose McGowan.

"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet..."

The new film started shooting March 2010, based on a screenplay by Joshua Oppenheimer ("Sahara") and Thomas Dean Donnelly ("Cowboys & Aliens") closely adhering to Howard's shadowy "Weird Tales" pulp magazine stories from the 1930's.

Joe Gatta and Avi Lerner of Millennium Films produced "Conan The Barbarian" alongside Paradox Entertainment president/CEO Fredrik Malmberg, rights holder of the Howard estate.

Millennium is eyeing a potential franchise for the R-rated $85 million sex/violence feature, that lensed at Nu Image's Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio and in South Africa.

"The story opens on the battlefield where Conan is born and tells the origin story that sets the stage for what will be the first of multiple films," said producer Lerner.

Created by Howard in 1932,

'Conan',

associated with the fantasy subgenre 'sword 'n sorcery', has since appeared in licensed books, animation, comics, films, TV series and video games.

'Conan the Barbarian' is also the name of a Gnome Press collection of stories published in 1954, comics and magazines published by Marvel and Lancer imprint paperback novels.

Swedish company Paradox, owners of the entire REH estate, li

censed Dark Horse Comics to revive the character for new "Conan" comic books in 2004, as well as supervise the development of an online RPG "Age of Conan".

Nispel said the look of the film will reflect the fantasy paintings of iconic 'Conan' illustrator Frank Frazetta.

Over the years, several "Conan" stories have been written by authors Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Roland J. Green, John C. Hocking, Robert Jordan, Sean A. Moore, Björn Nyberg, Andrew J. Offutt, Steve Perry, John Maddox Roberts, Harry Turtledove and Karl Edward Wagner.

Some of these writers finished incomplete Conan manuscripts by Howard, or rewrote Howard stories which originally featured different characters. Most post-Howard Conan stories, however, are completely original works.

In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.

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