Conan the Barbarian has been brought back to life, this time being played by Jason Momoa!
Deadline Hollywood reports that the (ahem) Stargate: Atlantis actor has been cast for the title, beating out Twilight actor Kellan Lutz as well as the upcoming Tonight Show host Jay Leno.
(For those of you who don’t stand with Coco, that last one was a joke. Let’s see NBC try to give a bloodthirsty Cimmerian less than seven months to beat Letterman! Without ER, no less!)
This decision came after much speculation, in which Millennium Films. Lionsgate, and Paradox Entertainment narrowly OK’d the casting after seeing test footage of Momoa in action.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Actually, it’s his wife, Lisa Bonet, who was on Life On Mars (and then only rarely.) Jason might best be recognized from Stargate: Atlantis, as well as Baywatch and North Shore.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
You confused Jason Momoa with Jason O’Mara. Momoa was on Stargate: Atlantis and O’Mara was on the American remake of Life on Mars.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Come on look at him…He is an Actor…No Conan. Conans Death happened on January 22 2010 exactly 94years after Robert E howard was born
January 31st, 2010 at 4:08 am
Casting could have been a lot worse. A lot. But I still have no hope for this movie. I fear it’ll be a low budget Beast Master.
March 30th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
This is terrible!
Real fans of the movie will hate this casting.
Please please recast. get somebody else please
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:46 am
Crom laughs at Jason Momoa’s four winds. But seriously, I’ll still watch the film. But this movie is already missing 3 important components. John Milius, Basil Poledouris and Arnie.
June 26th, 2010 at 9:22 am
I don’t think the closing of Walden is really that bad, because the reason that those stores are closing is that the people who used to shop at those tiny stores are now all going to the larger B&Ns, Borders, Books-a-Million, or online at Amazon. The only real drawback is that there are fewer places in the mall you can send your older kids and not have them bawling for some $60 video game