No other evocation of the “Sword and Sorcery” genre is as pure and unadulterated asConan the Barbarian, the 1982 film which embodies the narrative economy of Robert E. Howard, who created the character in the 1930s, and the visual iconography of Frank Frazetta, the artist whose paintings a...
Released in 1982,Conan the Barbarianwas written by Oliver Stone and John Milius with Millius directing. Schwarzenegger reprised the role in 1984 for the sequelConan the Destroyer. As theConanmovies helped to establish Schwarzenegger as a Hollywood star, it seems perfect for him to return to the...
You know, they even called it “Age of Casters” and had a joke; “Conan, the Barbarian lost his throne to Simon the Sorcerer”. ‘Tis true. Like the article said, you press your combo and the oponent just avoid it with a double tap. So the 1min cooldown takes place and you ...
In 1966 Lancer Books commissioned Frazetta to paint the covers for a series of short-story collections based on Robert E. Howard’s characterConan the Barbarian. For the first time in his career, Frazetta demanded that the original art be returned to him, and the publisher agreed. The result...