variety.com - 6/12/2009
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Film News: Nu Image/Millenium bringing back barbarian pic -- Marcus Nispel has been set by Nu Image/Millennium Films to direct "Conan," ending a nine-year development ordeal to reinvent the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982.
chud.com - 6/11/2009
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chud.com —
The meetings have been taken. The lists have
been winnowed. The director has been signed. Marcus Nispel
will direct Conan the Barbarian . I get this from an impeccable source, one who assures me that this isn't speculation or rumor. Nispel has signed ...
MARCUS NISPEL THE BARBARIAN
riskybusinessblog.com - 6/19/2009
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riskybusinessblog.com —
By Steven Zeitchik and Nellie Andreeva Kickinger, left,
and Schwarzenegger as Conan Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium, the
two companies behind the Conan reboot, might have found their new Conan -- and he bears striking similarities to the old Conan. ...
Meet the new Conan, same as the old Conan
variety.com - 6/12/2009
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variety.com —
Nu Image/Millennium bringing back barbarian pic Marcus Nispel
has been set by Nu Image/Millennium Films to direct
"Conan," ending a nine-year development ordeal to reinvent the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by Arnold ...
Marcus Nispel to direct 'Conan' remake - Entertainment ...
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STINKY HOBO DIRECTING CONAN REMAKE
FilmDrunk.com —
... wait. That opened the door for Nispel, who’ll make “Conan” his third redo, after “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” [his other directing credit being "Pathfinder"]. Nispel said he will blend his childhood imaginings of the character with the influence of the famous Conan illustrations by Frank Frazetta, and the influence of such viscerally violent period films as Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto.” [Variety] ...
Newsbites: The fantasy edition!
FilmChat —
... tense cliffhanger"; that film will come out in November 2010, and the second part of Deathly Hallows will come out in July 2011. -- Hollywood Reporter, Empire 6. Marcus Nispel, whose credits include remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Pathfinder (2007) and Friday the 13th (2009), has been set to direct the remake of Conan the Barbarian (1982). -- Variety, CHUD.com 7. Chris ...
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