I'm not interested in passing on the torch. Look, for my money, I don't think that the right way. Has there been any talk of bringing in an additional character to sort of take on the mantle? Morgan: I don't want to give away plot, but Conan's Conan to me. When this was announced, the idea was that this would be a Conan that wasn't necessarily fighting any longer, but that he'd get drawn into a battle. IGN: Can you talk about how the approach has evolved. It's going to be great, like genuinely great. We have an incredible story, a great writer on it. How's that going? Chris Morgan: It's going to be amazing. IGN: You've also got Conan in development. A ruler who would be drawn into a battle and need to call upon the barbarian he once was. When it was initially announced, the plan for the film was to focus on Conan as a magisterial ruler, rather than the barbarian of old. Morgan's increasingly busy schedule likely took him out of the running to write the screenplay himself, which they aim to meet the standard set by John Milius’s original Conan the Barbarian.

In October, producers hired Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) to pen the script. In early 2013 Schwarzenegger said that they were looking at Peter Jackson’s studio in New Zealand as a possible shooting location. Development has continued to move forward on the project, though. The studio was originally aiming for a summer 2014 premiere, a date they are clearly going to miss. Howard character, and produced 2011 version. Malmberg runs Paradox Entertainment, which controls the rights to the Robert E. Set to be produced by Fredrik Malmberg and Chris Morgan (The Fast and the Furious franchise and Wanted screenwriter), The Legend of Conan will follow what 1982's Conan the Barbarian established and disregard Conan the Destroyer and the 2011 Jason Momoa reboot. It's been a bit over a year since we reported that Universal had plans to reboot Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger once again in the titular role.

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