Conan the Hawaiian

[MattW]

I guess the found the new Conan. I don't know about this?

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Lionsgate and the other production companies of the Conan the Barbarian reboot have settled on the actor that will take over the role made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new Conan will be played by Hawaiian TV star Jason Momoa (Baywatch, Stargate: Atlantis). Director Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, Friday the 13th) reportedly convinced the producers to go with his choice of Momoa after being shown test footage of Momoa waving around a sword and behaving "very Schwarzenegger-like." Latino Review is also reporting that an offer has been made to Mickey Rourke to play Conan's father, Corin. Now that the long casting process is over, the new Conan production can move ahead; filming is set to start on March 15, 2010 in Bulgaria. This story gets the Rotten Idea tag because the way Momoa won the role seems to conflict with the years of claims that this reboot would be a departure from the Schwarzenegger movies. The films were popular, but weren't seen by fans as being particularly faithful to Robert E. Howard's source material.