Nu Image/Millennium Films has made a distibution rights deal with Lionsgate to kick off a new film series based on Robert E. Howards Conan The Barbarian.
According to Variety the deal will kick Conan into production later this year. It's being written by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer ("Sahara," "Cowboys & Aliens"). Nu Image/Millennium is financing the film and the cost is expected to be $100 million dollars.
With hopes of production to start soon it does all depend on the current writers strike. Nu Image/Millennium chief Avi Lerner is in discussions to make a WGA deal, "It's a possibility, though I haven't studied it enough to make a final decision," Lerner told Daily Variety. "The whole strike is stupid, in my opinion. They approached us, indirectly, to make some kind of deal, and we are looking at it."