Howard in the 1930s and the character has been popular ever since. Sometimes that can lead to additional creativity, such as when George Lucas couldn't get the rights to make Flash Gordon, and so made Star Wars instead, but when you're trying to make a sequel to a specific movie, that option doesn't really exist.Ĭonan was created by Robert E. I hope it will be done very soon because I think it’s a great idea.įar too often the thing that stands in the way of people getting to make the the movies or TV that they want has nothing to do with creativity, but is simply a pesky thing like legal rights. Let’s go to Netflix or whoever it is, let’s hire a director who’s very creative and can elevate the project to make it a winning project. The only one who really has to pull the trigger there is the people who own the Conan rights to do a movie. It’s really not that far from creating a finished script. Then he decides to make a movie maybe…but in the meantime, we have been trying to convince him for years now that the way to go is to come back and hire a really great director and to do another Conan movie and have me play King Conan, when Conan is like 70 years old and he's disgusted by sitting on the throne and being the king and then something happens after that. And then he goes maybe to Netflix and that falls apart. So there are people that say to him, 'why don’t you start with a TV series and then he negotiates for a TV series and that falls apart. Howard estate…when someone buys these rights, those people now own the rights and they have their own vision of what they want to do and the guy that has the rights is some young guy and he’s trying to figure out how to get his way through Hollywood and this is not easy to do. When it comes to the movie, the sad stuff about all of this is when there’s an estate like this, The Robert E.

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