It looks like Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian is heading to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that Amazon is in development on a small screen adaptation from Ryan Condal (Colony), Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) and Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale).
Colony co-creator Condal has created and written the project, which is said to retell the character’s story “via a return to his literary origins” and sees Conan wandering the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization in search of a purpose after being driven out of his tribal homelands.
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Conan has been adapted for the screen on a number of occasions, most notably in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and 1984’s Conan the Destroyer, where he was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger (who has also been attached to a long-gestating sequel entitled The Legend of Conan). Jason Momoa also played in the character in the 2011 reboot Conan the Barbarian, while there has also been two animated series – Conan the Adventurer and Conan and the Young Warriors, as well as a short-lived live action series Conan the Adventurer starring Ralf Moller.
