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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Returning to Play Conan the Barbarian After More Than 40 Years · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The Terminator was the one role that catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger
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  Speaker 2: into superstardom, and he's returned to play the T one
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  Speaker 2: thousand timetime again. But if you had to pick another
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  Speaker 2: character the launched his career, it would be Conan the Barbarian.
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  Speaker 1: And Arnold is finally going to be Conan once again, and.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't played Conan since the sequel Conan the Destroyer
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 4: There was originally supposed to be a third movie, but
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  Speaker 4: it never got made. Then Jason Momoa played him in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twelve, I didn't do so well.
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  Speaker 2: Arnold himself revealed the plans for the new movie at
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  Speaker 2: the Arnold Sports Festival that bears his name. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: called King Conan. He's been ruling his kingdom for forty
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  Speaker 2: years until he gets forced out of power by some
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  Speaker 2: unsavory characters.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the story really kicks off.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Quari, who wrote and directed successful Mission Impossible movies,
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  Speaker 2: will be handling both jobs on King Conan as well.
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  Speaker 2: Look for that to go into production next year. That's
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  Speaker 2: direct from Hollywood