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Post by kemp on Oct 2, 2018 17:44:48 GMT -5
Until someone is geared up to get REH's Conan up on screen happy to wait - but not too long please I'm getting on in years LOL. We don't want another bastardized version ala Arnie , Ralf , Jason (though I liked him not the film ) which will take years to get rid of the bad press. The whole Arnie, Moeller, Momoa series of Conan offerings owes more to pop culture S & S comics from the 60's/70's than to REH. It would be good to get something a little closer to the REH source material, 'Beyond the Black River' would work very well as a big screen production, but if nothing else I would welcome an Arnie King Conan since he has revealed interest in the project. In regards to your link on the development of the Wheel of Time by Amazon, loved the books, although the series ran for too long, the Aes Sedai kind of reminded me of the Bene Gesserit from Frank Herbert's Dune books.
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Post by kemp on Oct 2, 2018 17:51:51 GMT -5
Imagine if they included the Red Ajah from Wheel of Time. Remember how the Red sisters existed to find men who could channel and bring them back to the White Tower to be 'gentled', that process where their link with the one source power would be savagely cut off and the men reduced to a shadow of their former selves. i never thought about it at the time, but I can imagine some of the discussions that people would be having about it now.
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Post by megatron on Oct 2, 2018 18:09:16 GMT -5
Until someone is geared up to get REH's Conan up on screen happy to wait - but not too long please I'm getting on in years LOL. We don't want another bastardized version ala Arnie , Ralf , Jason (though I liked him not the film ) which will take years to get rid of the bad press. Me too. I'm okay waiting for the right match.
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Post by Von K on Oct 2, 2018 19:24:46 GMT -5
Wheel of Time, as a long running epic series, seems like a closer match for the kind of GoT style series that Jeff Bezos was looking for. From what I've heard it lacks the gritty hard edge of GoT and Conan though.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Oct 2, 2018 22:27:24 GMT -5
The Amazon TV series did not get green lit. Throw it on the pyre with the many others. Let's let it rest and move on.
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Post by thedarkman on Oct 2, 2018 22:31:38 GMT -5
I haven’t had a chance to read this thread for a couple of days, just caught up tonight; what a painful slog. I’ll wait for the political pus to drain from this abscess for a while before I poke my nose back in.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Oct 2, 2018 22:33:46 GMT -5
From: swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/816/sjws-negative-effect-movies-entertainment?page=2&scrollTo=22909It’s unreal that there are so few places to discuss Conan and REH on the internet and you guys have so foully polluted this one. Jesus fucking Christ. Thulsadoom hit the nail on the head. I hate censoring people, but this forum is devoted to Robert E. Howard and his works. REH and Conan come first. Politics in this day and age are so damn divisive and suck the enjoyment out of pretty much everything. Also, as thulsadoom says there are very few places to talk about Conan and REH online. It is in the best interest of this forum to be politically neutral and any posts that help cultivate that environment would be greatly appreciated. We're not here to solve the world's problems, just chat about REH and Conan. Does this forum have moderators? If yes, are they blind in respect of how much this flaming is hurting the franchise -- a franchise that a forum like this was supposed to be about, and is supposed to be supportive of? By not moderating a thread like this, plus comments on another thread, they are passively helping in an attempt to push Conan, and generally all REH related stuff, into obscurity, in which it will be labeled 'for alt-right only'. It is very likely that it is precisely because of this the announced Conan TV show is cancelled. This is no longer a REH but an anti-REH forum. Here is another story about Russian trolls who in cohorts with the alt-right are doing this kind of stuff (I previously linked reports about this in another thread from another news house): www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/02/star-wars-the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-abuse-politically-motivated-russian-trolls This is a fanforum. All of us are volunteers and have lives of our own. We've honestly never HAD to moderate to this extent ever before. I'm not taking people's posts down as I don't really believe in censorship. But given the political climate and the main reason why we're here being REH and Conan, I think the only solution is to have the Swords of REH be politically neutral. Let's not go tribal and focus on what divides us, but what unites us, REH and Conan. I'm going to lock this thread and ask that everyone move on in the Conan TV series thread, locking that as well. Let's all move on and keep discussing REH and Conan.
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