Doug won’t be happy with this news at all. It looks liike everything is still moving ahead for the newest Conan film… however they’re just heading in a different direction now. A VERY different direction.
Variety gives us this:
Looking to re-establish Conan as more than a chat host, Warner Bros. has set Boaz YakinBoaz Yakin to write and potentially direct “Conan the Barbarian,” a new take on the Robert E. Howard-created character.
Yakin’s concept is more faithful to the Howard story than were the two Dino De Laurentiis-produced “Conan” films that starred Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger as the sword-wielding conqueror.
WB has tried diligently to revive Conan and got close twice. “The Matrix””The Matrix” directors Larry and Andy WachowskiAndy Wachowski circled, and then Robert RodriguezRobert Rodriguez emerged, but hiring the latter became problematic after he quit the Directors Guild of America so he could co-helm “Sin City” with Frank Miller.
That’s a REAL shame about losing the Wachowski script and Rodriguez. What’s even worse is that they decided that Boaz Yakin is the guy to write and direct the next one. What else has Boaz Yakin done? Well lets put it this way… he wrote Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and directed Uptown Girls. DO we really need to say anything more? Although to be fair he didn’t do a bad job directing Remember the Titans. This just feels bad to me. Can’t wait to hear what Doug has to say about this.
