Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 American sword and sorcery film based on the character created by Robert E. Howard, and starring Jason Momoa as Conan. The film was directed by Marcus Nispel and written
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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
Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)
…Alina Pușcău as Lara There had been talk in the late 1990s of a second Conan the Barbarian sequel following Conan the Destroyer, about an older Conan, set to be titled King Conan: Crown of Iron; however, due to Arnold Schwarzenegger's election…
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).