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Netflix is Developing a Live-Action ‘Conan the Barbarian’ TV Series!
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been trying to get a new Conan the Barbarian movie off the ground for a while now, but it looks like the property is instead being turned into a TV series over at Netflix. Deadline reports that the streaming service is developing a live-action series based on the iconic Robert E. Howard-created sword-and-sorcery character.
Deadline’s Nellie Andrews notes, “I hear the project, from Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media, is the first in a deal between Netflix and Conan Properties International, owned by Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment. The pact gives Netflix the exclusive option to acquire rights to the Conan literary library and develop works across TV and film, both live-action and animated.”
Netflix is currently seeking a writer/director and showrunner for the project.
Schwarzenegger played Conan in the 1980s feature films Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, and he had recently expressed interest in coming back to reprise the role.
Jason Momoa took over the role of Conan for 2011’s Conan the Barbarian.
The character of Conan the Barbarian was created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, introduced in a series of fantasy stories that were published in Weird Tales magazine.
Today, Prime Video announced that Emily Mortimer (Relic), Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte), and Thomasin McKenzie (Victorian Psycho, Eileen) have joined the cast of Season Three of Fallout.
The hit series begins production on its third season this month in Los Angeles.
The series based on the video games tells “the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.“
The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Frances Turner (The Boys), Annabel O’Hagan (Rent Free), and Dave Register (FBI).
Aaron Paul (Anything But Ghosts) has also joined the cast for Season Three, as previously announced.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners.
Catch up on both seasons ahead of Season Three on Prime Video now.
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