Apparently, there is going to be a full-length animated feature film of the Conan story Red Nails.
http://www.conan.com/f_rednails.shtml
So, the actual film is being made.
This is not a “we’re talking about it” thing, this is a go.
A new Conan movie is cool , but animated sucks. :mad:
I kept expecting Conan to exclaim in Red Nails, “What is it with these people?”
Two factions killing each other in a huge sealed building with the ubiquitous giant snakes eatting folks.
You’d think they would go to a movie or something.
…and they got Frank Frazetta, right? RIGHT?
I’m such a Conan fan, I already knew about this, and I’ve been torn over it for a while…Red Nails…cool…animated…could suck big hairy donkey balls. sigh
What I wouldn’t give for a new, live-action, true to REH Conan movie…
Hopefully, it will be the BWS version with Red Sonja to take some of the hurt away. I have a feeling it will be more like a loinclothed “For a Few Dollars More.”
A Conan movie that stuck to the story would be pretty neat. (BTW, carnivorous, no snake in RN. I think you’re mixing your Conan stories). I hope the don’t have Red Sonya. She was never in the Conan stories, anyway. And, although the original RS was pretty cool and even believable, she quickly morphed into a Hot Babe in a Silver-Dollar Bikini, which might be nice to look at, but is pretty damned imptrobable and inconvenient (you try sneaking up on someone in a silver-dollar bra that doesn’t even have the decency to protect your vitals).
The adaptation of it written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Barry Smith (before e added the “Windsor”) back about 1975 for Savage Sword of Conan was pretty damned cinematic, especially the shot with the Apples of Derketo dripping in the foreground as Conan attacked the “dragon”. If they used that as the storyboards, I wouldn’t mind.
Quick question - is this the story where Conan comes across a kinda forgotten temple/city in the middle of nowhere. Two rival gangs fighting each other in the middle, filled with halls and balconies? That was easily my favourite. Can anyone tell me the title of the book so I can go grab it?
If it’s animated though, even I won’t watch it.
Bager – that’s the one.
What’s wrong with animation? If you can find it, watch the animated film Fire and Ice. The story ain’t great, but Frank Frazetta did the inspirational sketches and characters. Yum.
There’s no creature of some sort eatting the other side? 
It’s been a while since I read it, but IIRC, the weird menace is the Real Old Guy from one side who latches onto the magic ray gun crystal and starts zapping people.
That was the book. It hasn’t been reprinted in the excellent Wandering Star reprints yet, so it should be in the Nov. volume (IIRC, that’ll be the final).
The comic was also recently reprinted in the Dark Horse reissues, but I can’t find it in my collection. I want to say it was in Vol .4 as that was after BWS’ departure and he came back an actual artist by that point.
Man, that’s driving me nuts, it was really, really cool.
Yeah, it’s volume 4 of the Dark Horse reprint collection…and with all new improved coloring! Sweet stuff…
Nitpick of sorts: it was Valeria, not Red Sonja, in Red Nails.
The original Conan the Barbarian movie mixed up a bunch of different REH stories, some of which weren’t even Conan stories. Valeria was particularly misrepresented, as in the books she was a the leader of a band of pirates called the Red Brotherhood and as far as I know she only had a brief fling with Conan (although a memorable one). The Valeria of the movie was more like a mix of the Red Sonja of the comics (as far as I know, Red Sonja never was in any of the Conan stories that REH wrote) and Belit (also a leader of a group of corsairs - something about strong, beautiful women and the sea that REH loved, apparently) , who was the first and probably greatest true love of Conan’s life and who was the one who declared that she would come back from the dead to fight by Conan’s side if he were in danger…
That’s one part of my love/hate relationship with the Conan movie; I thought it was great but it’s like they not only put a lot of eggs in one basket, they shook it up and made an omelete out of it.
…A monstrous head protrued from behind the divan, a reptilian head, broad as the head of a crocodile, with down curving fangs that projected over the lower jaw. …
Conan peered behind the couch. It was a great serpent which lay there limp in death, but such a serpent as he had never seen in his wanderings…
“It is the crawler!” whispered Yanath.
“It’s the thing I slashed on the stair,” grunted Conan…
Ah.
Red Nails is one of the better stories since it has a fairly nice backstory that has a lesson for us nowadays …
The two groups fighting it out in the city in the jungle are the remnants of a once-mighty empire who are still fighting with insane fury even though their empire is gone and no one remembers what the original quarrel was about. Call the two factions “Dems” and “Pubs” and it could get interesting.
Coms and Yangs ^ :dubious: ^
SPARTAN DOG! SARACEN PIG! TURKISH TAFFEY! SPANISH FLY! SWEDISH MEATBALL!
I like Woody Allen’s early films, as well as Howard’s writing. 
Slight hijack, but the Dark Horse Conan comic books by Kurt Busiek are extremely faithful to the source material, adapting classic stories and telling new ones “in continuity” with the originals. They’re getting pretty strong raves from Robert E. Howard fans.
Might change your mind about the possiblities of animation.
Could be good. Now if they’d only do a Solomon Kane movie…
What?! This isn’t about Conan O’ Brien? :mad:
And I was really looking forward towards the Masturbating Bear’s big screen debut…