New Conan Trailer

Alert reader Shane pointed me toward the just-released trailer for the upcoming Conan the Barbarian movie.


There's not much in the way of substantive commentary I can offer just yet, but I will say three things that come immediately to mind:

1. I'm glad this movie has a very different visual look than the 1982 movie, since it -- foolishly in my opinion -- shares the same title with it.
2. Jason Momoa doesn't look too bad as the Cimmerian. He's still not quite right (no blue eyes that I could see), but he's closer to Howard's character in my mind than Schwarzenegger.
3. At least they're pronouncing his name properly.

Beyond that, I didn't see much that made me think this will be anything more than a swords-and-sorcery B movie with a famous name attached to the title. If we're lucky, it won't do active violence to Howard's world and characters, thereby leaving open the possibility for better sequels, but I'm not holding my breath.