Conan The Barbarian Poster

Lionsgate released a pretty cool motion poster for Conan The Barbarian. IGN said that the poster is “a nod to the classic Conan imagery of the late artist Frank Frazetta. Indeed, the poster is an intentional effort to bring Frazetta’s vision of the character to life, just as the new film is a reincarnation and reinvention of the world’s most famous barbarian for modern audiences.”

Conan is played by Jason Momoa and also stars Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan and young actor Leo Howard as young Conan. I met Leo and he is a pretty cool little dude.

Conan The Barbarian will be released in 3D on August 19.

The still version of poster

The awesome motion poster is after the jump because it takes up a lot of memory.

Daily Movie News

Thursday, February 25, 2010

• Latino Review broke news yesterday that David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, FlashForward) is attached to write the next Superman movie. The movie is currently titled The Man of Steel. He is the only person attached it at the moment. Also, the story will involve Lex Luthor and Braniac and isn't a origin story. Superman himself Brandon Routh will not star and Brian Singer isn't expected to direct. That's awesome with Goyer writing, but it sucks without Routh as Superman.

• Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover, Youth in Revolt) is going to star in a buddy supernatural/comedy called Miracle Workers. Zach will play a man posing as an exorcist with a pal. The buddies think they got it good until they are faced with a real menace. Sounds like it could be funny.

• Mickey Rourke has officially signed on the Conan movie to play Conan's father. Also, MMA fighter Bob Sapp has signed on to play Ukafa. Filming starts on March 15th. This movie could be cool.

• Writer Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2) is reportedly in talks to direct Zoolander 2. He will most likely to write it with Ben Stiller. No news on Owen Wilison returning, but Jonah Hill is in negotiations to play the villain. Zoolander was awesome and with Hill playing the villain this could be good or bad.

• Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds have been cast to star in a 3D CG/comedy called The Croods. Dreamworks Animation has hired Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, how to Train Your Dragon) and Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimips) to write and direct the film. Cage is just selling himself to make back some money he loss. 

• Action movie star Bruce Willis announced that he his going to be working on two anticipated sequels next. He announced that they are going to make Die Hard 5 maybe sometime as close as next year and he will contribute in taking McClane worldwide. Also, Willis wants Live Free or Die Hard director zlen Wiseman to return. His other film is the sequel to the M. Night Shyamalan directed Unbreakable cleverly titled Unbreakable 2 (for now). He talked to Night over the holidays and they decided not to do a fight film between Willis and Jackson, but instead an origin story. He also stated he will return if Sam Jackson does. So I can't wait for both of these movies. 

Benjamin Myers

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Daily Movie News for Tuesday, January 26, 2010.

• Actor Sam Worthington is being considered to play the legendary vampire Dracula in Universal's new film Dracula: Year Zero. Yes, I said it, Year Zero. That a horrible title for a cool synopsis. The plot is a period piece set in Transylvania in during the reign of Vlad the Impaler. Also, has a reported budget of over $100 million and director Alex Proyas (The Crow) is in talks to direct. Can't wait to see how this gets panned out.

• Director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI) was hired by Paramount to direct Paranormal Activity 2, which would compete against Saw VII on October 22, 2010. Lionsgate decided to be smart and A-Holes at same time and dismiss Saw V director David Hackl  from Saw VII and use Greutert's contract to keep him. This just is a way to delay Paramount's release date for Paranormal Activity 2, so this means Saw would make more money.

• Heat Vision is reporting that Clash of the Titans and the last two Harry Potter movies will be released to 3D. Warner Bros. hasn't commented on the news, but Clash of the Titans was moved back a week to April 2nd. Comment by Warner is most likely coming at end of week for Clash and Harry Potter to follow. 

• Director Michael Bay has been scouting locations for Transformers 3 in Chicago, Detroit, and Washington D.C. And he says the script is turning out way different then the last two films. Hopefully, that means more time spent on story, just a hope.

• 30-year-old actor Jason Momoa (Stargate Atlantis) has been cast as Conan in Marcus Nispel's reinvention of Robert E. Howard's Conan. Also, an offer has been given to Mickey Rourke to play his father Corin. This could be intresting.

Benjamin Myers

PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15