Paradox Entertainment President and CEO Fredrik Malmberg discusses various films including Conan and Kull.
The company Paradox Entertainment develops and licenses mainly character-based properties, which include stories and characters of the late author Robert E. Howard. The next movie reported will be "Conan the Barbarian," and has been in full casting mode since the last month.
Fredrik Malmberg said the rumors that the adaption will focus on a teenage barbarian are totally false, but the lead role in the movie remains as yet uncast, even though plans for "Conan" start production early next year. Marcus Nispel (Friday the 13th and Pathfinder) directs.
Malmberg also confirms that Matthew Sand (Ninja Assassin) wrote a script for the movie "Kull the Conqueror" and Malmberg is producing with Denise Di Novi.
Matthew Sand recently spoke about the "Kull" project with Comic Book Resources, this is what he said:
"I did a screenplay for Kull, and while we were developing the screenplay, they did a great comic book. It was fun to see my interpretation of the Robert E. Howard literature go one way and the comic going another way. They were interesting bookends on what Howard did. But I love the comic book, and it couldn't be more different from what I wrote."
Back to Malmberg, he has said though he's not involved in the previously announced "Thusla Doom" film, which is based on the Conan antagonist. Paradox has licensed the rights out to a third party.
Paradox is also in various stages of development on movie adaptations of other Howard-created properties "Vultures" (based on Howard's 1936 western story) and Paradox Entertainment also holds the rights to "Buck Rogers," which has no connection with Robert E. Howard but is comic book related.
LEEE777 - I say bring them on! All these movies sound like epics in the making. What do you guys think?
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