Comments on: Movies Seen Recently: Conan the Barbarian, Saathiya, Total Recall https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-conan-the-barbarian-saathiya-total-recall/ I make things, and I make things up. Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Zsuzsa https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-conan-the-barbarian-saathiya-total-recall/#comment-3496 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:07:42 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=29269#comment-3496 I’ll admit that I’ve never seen the 1982 Conan (I was still a toddler when it came out), but if the dialog in the trailer is any indication of the movie, then I don’t think Schwarzenegger was the only one involved in this production whose grasp of the English language was a little shaky.

]]> By: Nathan https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-conan-the-barbarian-saathiya-total-recall/#comment-3495 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:32:35 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=29269#comment-3495 In reply to RK.

But the franchise rights held by Marvel apparently didn’t include the film rights, so nothing had to pass through them to get to Dino De Laurentiis and nothing from the movie was obviously based on the comics, rather than on the underlying properties. The Howard estate licensed the property to Marvel, and Conan Properties Inc., own jointly by the estate and L. Sprague de Camp, licensed it to De Laurentiis.

]]> By: RK https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-conan-the-barbarian-saathiya-total-recall/#comment-3494 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:45:16 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=29269#comment-3494 Of course, as I noted to one of the authors over on Cover Critics, those silly Conan movies were where most people who’d ever heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger before he hit the big time with the first Terminator movie first remember seeing him. This being the early 1980s, D.C. was still ruling the big screen with its comic book properties while Marvel (which had purchased the licensing rights for the franchise courtesy of Roy Thomas, who counted persuading his bosses Stan Lee and Martin Goodman to spend some dough on picking it up for a comic book adaptation as one of the greatest achievements of his entire career) was still on the low-budget small screen circuit in its “Dork Age” of live-action adaptations of its properties. (“At least it’s not Marvel, right? Those guys’ll never figure out how to make movies!”) Under the circumstances, it’s amazing that anything even remotely resembling the franchise’s original stories ever made it to the big screen at all.

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