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Monday, January 28, 2013

Paul Verhoeven Would Direct The Legend of Conan

Director Paul Verhoeven recently stated that he would be open to re-teaming with his Total Recall star Arnold Schwarzenegger for The Legend of Conan.

"If they asked me, I'd certainly love to -- let's put it that way," Verhoeven told Moviehole in an interview. "But I don't know what the script is. I don't know what Arnold wants. I'm a big fan in fact of Conan. That's a great movie and I found that the composer, Basil Poledouris, basically inspired many of my movies [the soundtracks] like Flesh and Blood, RoboCop, Starship Troopers and Total Recall. The score of Conan is great. The style of editing that Milius used was very beautiful, and Arnold does a great job. He was really the perfect choice."

Additionally, president and CEO of Paradox Entertainment Fredrik Malmberg, a producer on The Legend of Conan, had his own thoughts on a director, listing Peter Jackson as one of his top picks.

"You always have to let the creative side and let the director put his stamp and mark on it so you never know what's going to happen with the production design," Malmberg said. "I mean, we're trying to get the top production people involved. We're talking all the time about who we'd see doing the production, and our dream would be to have the WETA Workshop guys, the LOTR and Hobbit guys. They are huge Conan fans and they would be great to be involved on the creative side. But if they wanted to pay homage to the old swords, we could do it. But will the director and the whole team think that’s a copout or is that an homage? So you never know.”

The Legend of Conan is currently slated for a summer 2014 debut.

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