Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back... as Conan the Barbarian

The days of high adventure might finally be back. One of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature franchises, Conan, has long been on the actor’s wish list of films he could revisit. And now, that idea has taken its biggest step in years. Christopher McQuarrie, the Oscar-winning writer of The Usual Suspects and director of the last four Mission: Impossible movies, is attached to write and direct a third film in the franchise, King Conan. Schwarzenegger himself first broke the news at an event called the Arnold Sports Festival in Ohio, which was then confirmed by the Hollywood Reporter. The project is set up at 20th Century Studios, which is owned by Disney. Conan the Barbarian was one of Schwarzenegger’s earliest breakout roles way back in 1982, and it subsequently got a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984. The first film, however, ended with an image of an older, grizzled Conan as a king and teased many more adventures to come. It’s an idea the actor, and plenty of others, have tried to bring to life for decades. But now, somehow, it’s moving forward again. “With King Conan, it’s a great old story that Conan was 40 years as king, and now he gets forced out of the kingdom, and there’s co

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