Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius from a screenplay he co-wrote with Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the epic film stars Arnold Sch
International theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro
Oliver Stone (1987 photograph) was brought on to the project as a "name screenwriter".
Ed Pressman and his associates considered Arnold Schwarzenegger (1984 photograph) the embodiment of Conan the Barbarian.
The idea of painting symbols onto Conan's body to help ward off spirits is taken from the Japanese story "Hoichi the Earless", as depicted in the film Kwaidan (1965).
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Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero created by American author Robert E. Howard. He debuted in 1932 and went on to appear in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales
Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
…Barbarian is a 1982 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius from a screenplay he co-wrote with Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the epic film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks to avenge…
Fan art of Conan the Barbarian in his iconic loincloth
Cover of Weird Tales (May 1934) depicting Conan and Bêlit in "Queen of the Black Coast", one of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories