{"id":813325,"date":"2026-03-09T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813325\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:58:14","slug":"42-years-on-cult-fantasy-sequel-gets-the-most-exciting-update-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813325\/","title":{"rendered":"42 Years On, Cult Fantasy Sequel Gets The Most Exciting Update Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that after 40 years, Masters of the Universe<\/a> is making its long-awaited return to the big screen, it feels like anything is possible. While Masters of the Universe might be the most well-known franchise making a comeback<\/a>, it\u2019s not the only franchise looking to make a return in the fantasy genre, as after 42 years, a cult favorite sequel just received the most exciting update possible.<\/p>\n

In an interview with TheArnoldFans.com<\/a> during the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> revealed that Fox has hired a writer and director for a new King Conan movie, and that writer-director is none other than Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie. Schwarzenegger said, \u201cThey just hired a fantastic writer\/director who did Tom Cruise\u2019s last four movies. They just hired him (Christopher McQuarrie) to write and direct King Conan.\u201d That\u2019s huge if true, and means that after 42 years, fans will finally get to see the sequel to Conan the Destroyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What Is The Premise for the King Conan Movie?<\/p>\n

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Conan the Destroyer was released in 1984, and there was a sequel planned to make it a trilogy, which would have been titled Conan the Conqueror. Expiring deals and issues agreeing to a new one caused the script of Conan the Conqueror to become Kull the Conquerer, and while a third Conan film would be in development at various times, nothing ever came of it.<\/p>\n

Now King Conan looks to be on the right track, and there\u2019s an interesting idea at the center of it. The story follows King Conan after being the people\u2019s leader for forty years, but he is forced out of the kingdom at some point in the story. When he returns, hard times have befallen the kingdom, and it\u2019s up to Conan to restore peace and take out any number of deadly creatures and enemies along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith King Conan, its a great old story that Conan was forty years as King and now he gets forced out of the kingdom and there\u2019s conflict, of course, but somehow he comes back and there\u2019s all kinds of madness, violence, magic and creatures and stuff like that. And now, of course, there\u2019s all kinds of special effects. The studio has plenty of money to make those movies really big so i\u2019m looking forward to all of those projects,\u201d Schwarzenegger said.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s been a while since Schwarzenegger played the role of Conan, and he is in his late seventies these days. Schwarzenegger was asked about playing the role in the movie, and he said that the role would obviously need to be adapted for his age.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, what they do is that they write the part,\u201d Schwarzenegger said. \u201cThey don\u2019t write them like I\u2019m forty years old, you write it to be age-appropriate. I\u2019ll still go in there and kick some ass but it will be different.\u201d<\/p>\n

This would also be a dream project for McQuarrie, as 10 years ago, during a Reddit AMA, McQuarrie was asked if he was a Conan fan and if he would consider director Schwarzenegger in a film. McQuarrie wrote, \u201cI have always wanted to do a period epic. I spent years working on a script about Alexander the Great. I don\u2019t think I have pumped at a proper gym since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Conan seems to be going with the timeline created by the original movie and the second one, though it likely won\u2019t have anything to do with the 2011 Conan film that featured Jason Momoa in the lead role.<\/p>\n

The new Conan project currently has no release date.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given that after 40 years, Masters of the Universe is making its long-awaited return to the big screen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[2779,148176,77,234642,3943,968,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-813325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","9":"tag-conan-the-barbarian","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-king-conan","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-regular-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116196508049514564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}