Fredrik Malmberg, Paradox Entertainment’s CEO, recently revealed that his company was working on a new Kull movie. The last appearance of Kull the Conqueror on film, was the 1997 fantasy action film about the Robert E. Howard character Kull starring Kevin Sorbo. It was a movie adaptation of Howard’s Conan novel The Hour of the Dragon, with the protagonist changed to the author’s other barbarian hero Kull.

Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard, also creator of Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. The character was more introspective than the subsequent Conan, whose first appearance was in a re-write of a rejected Kull story.

Native to Atlantis, Kull grows up with his family in Tiger Valley until a flood wipe his clan out. Another clan bring him up, but he stands up for a woman destined to burn alive and ends up banned from Atlantis. He sails for the continent and take up the mercenary way. He’ll become king, just as Conan will do thousands of years later. Under his influence, Valusia ends up as the most powerful kingdom of the time.

The 1997 film was originally intended to be a third Conan film. The protagonist was changed due to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s refusal to reprise his role as Conan and Kevin Sorbo’s reluctance to redo a character already played. Screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue has stated on several occasions that he was extremely displeased with the film, feeling that his script was ruined by studio interference.