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Post by KiramidHead on May 10, 2024 15:19:50 GMT -5
Here's an interesting thing I was sent a little while back: a set of three story ideas that Karl Edward Wagner pitched to Dino de Laurentiis for a third Conan film. They're all based on Howard stories to different extents, with roles added in for Akiro and Zula. The first is a hodgepodge of different influences, lifting mainly from Black Colossus and Man Eaters of Zamboula, and (I think) one of the fragments. The second is a combination of Beyond the Black River and The Black Stranger, with Zogar Sog leading the Pictish attack on Valenso's fortress. And the last one is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Red Nails, just with the movie characters given roles and Natala from Xuthal of the Dusk subbed in for Valeria. Overall it makes for an interesting read, and a neat look into what could have been. Wagner seemed intent on including a decent amount of humor, and oddly thinks Akiro is an inherently comical character who fucks up his magic regularly. Some of the story mashups don't quite work, either.
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Post by BlackHeart on Jun 30, 2024 3:47:57 GMT -5
Something I stumbled upon this morning (quoting a certain Braz J. Kovalsky):
The never-made film becomes a comic adaptation
Extreme violence, hard sex and horror without limits In 1987, following the success of the first two movies of the Conan saga. Dino De Laurentiis commissioned the screenplay for a third movie (the one that you are reading in this comic adaptation) to Luciano Vincenzoni, his historic collaborator who typically prepared the first drafts of films that then went into production for the American market.
To create the story, the Italian writer starts from some stories by Robert Howard: “The Hour of the Dragon”, “The Children of the Night” and “People in the Darkness”, in order to merge the heroic universe of the Cimmerian with Lovecraft’s settings and cosmic deities. The cast is chosen and Arnold Schwarzenegger is joined as co-stars by his fellow Austrian Sybil Danning and Olivia D’Abo, while John Guillermin is considered for the direction.
Conan the barbarian
Unfortunately the lead actor, who is no longer under contract and is busy with another film, forces De Laurentiis to abandon the project. The original screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni on Conan the Destroyer ends up on the shelves of Cinecittà, together with studies by Carlo Rambaldi and Giannetto De Rossi, who had begun to sketch the sketches of the monsters and the Lovecraftian creatures enviosioned in the story.
After many years the staff of Closure comics have decided to dust off this old Vincenzoni script, remaining faithful to Rambaldi’s sketches and create a comic, using the original cast to recreate the Conan the Conqueror never-made film. It is a comic adaption in perfect 80s style, with content prohibited for children under 18, inspired by underground works such as Heavy Metal or Ralph Bakshi’s productions.
THE WORLD OF ROBERT E. HOWARD MEETS THE UNIVERSE OF H.P. LOVECRAFT.
I believe this is a move to draw more attention to his work, but is anyone familiar with this concept perhaps? It definitely sounds like an acid driven fan fic to me.
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Post by KiramidHead on Jun 30, 2024 10:02:41 GMT -5
I had never heard of this version before.
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Post by BlackHeart on Jun 30, 2024 16:48:09 GMT -5
I had never heard of this version before. This Conan, considering even Millius' version, is heavily out of character, almost KEW's Kane. 10 gold pieces that it's just a fanfic disguised as a legit thing.
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