Last month, we told you that Lionsgate had decided to change the name of the upcoming Conan reboot, starring Jason Momoa, and based on the Robert E. Howard books and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood and Andrew Lobel from Conan to the more classic Conan the Barbarian.
Aside from that, and a few handfuls of images, we haven’t gotten too much insight into the reboot as of yet. Now, the ever-awesome Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy, Season of the Witch) dropped a few details about his role in the film, while speaking with Carla Hay from The Examiner.
Perlman said,
“I play Conan’s father. There’s big-time sword action. But I’m only in the movie for 10 minutes. I can’t tell everything, but the first sequence is huge. It’s epic. All I can tell you is that I work with the Conan who’s 11 years old. And there’s a jump cut to Conan the adult, and I’m no longer on the scene. I don’t want to give away anything. I never worked with Jason Momoa, who’s the adult Conan. I only worked with this kid [Leo Howard], who’s a phenomenal actor. And he’s like a North American champion of swords since he was 4 years old. He had a black belt [in martial arts] by the time he was 4. He’s a swordsman and he’s mind-boggling. He made me look like a piker.”
Perlman also spoke about working with director Guillermo del Toro on Hellboy 3 and At the Mountains of Madness, and had this to say about the two projects:
“He was trying to do Mountains of Madness. That’s been his number-one labor-of-love movie that he’s been trying to do for a number of years. I think that was the one he identified as the next one he’d like to do. Because I’ve been away working and he’s been away doing other stuff, I haven’t had a chance to catch up with him personally to see everything’s going and where everything is at.”
“I hope there’s a third Hellboy, simply because he always thought of it as a trilogy. And when he set up that [Liz Sherman, Hellboy’s love interest] is pregnant with twins at the end of Hellboy 2, he kind of sketched out what the third Hellboy movie would look like. It’s so theatrical. It’s so epic. It’s so dark.”
“And also, we have to find out about the Hellboy destiny. It’s written in stone that he’s going to destroy mankind. That’s what he’s been brought to Earth to do. So the whole dialogue between nurture and nature gets to live itself out in the third Hellboy movie. But if there’s no third one, then the audience doesn’t get to see any of that.”
Conan the Barbarian is slated to hit theaters on August 19th, 2011.
At The Mountains Of Madness is slated to hit theaters in 2013.
