Conan the Barbarian (2011)

A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Writers:

Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer,

Stars:

Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Momoa	...	Conan
Stephen Lang	...	Khalar Zym
Rachel Nichols	...	Tamara
Ron Perlman	...	Corin
Rose McGowan	...	Marique
Bob Sapp	...	Ukafa
Leo Howard	...	Young Conan
Steven O'Donnell	...	Lucius
Nonso Anozie	...	Artus
Raad Rawi	...	Fassir
Laila Rouass	...	Fialla
Saïd Taghmaoui	...	Ela-Shan
Milton Welsh	...	Remo
Borislav Iliev	...	Wild Man
Nathan Jones	...	Akhun

Storyline

A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

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Plot Keywords:

warrior | mask | barbarian | soldier | warlord | 

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Taglines:

Enter An Age Undreamed Of

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

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Certificate:

18A

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate [United States] Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 August 2011 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Conan

Filming Locations:

Bulgaria

Box Office

Budget:

$70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,021,215 (USA) (19 August 2011)

Gross:

$21,270,904 (USA) (30 September 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nu Image Films, Millennium Films, Cinema Vehicle Services

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Rachel Nichols had a body double for her sex scene.

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Goofs

When Tamara is ambushed by Zim's men in the forest, she does not notice the first rider until he is only a few yards from her, despite having a very clear line of sight for a few hundred yards in every direction, and despite there being no noise louder than birdsong to mask the thundering hooves of a galloping horse. Similarly, the foot-soldiers were quite clearly not lying in wait - the trees in the forest are too skinny for them to have hidden behind and there is no other cover around - yet they are upon Tamara within a couple of seconds of the horseman attacking.

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Quotes

Corin: What is most important when making a sword, fire or ice?
Young Conan: Fire.
[Corin looks at Young Conan with some disbelief]
Young Conan: [pause] ... Ice?
Corin: Are you sure?
[pause; then Corin strikes the anvil with a newly-forged sword which breaks]
Corin: Fire... and ice. That is the mystery of steel.

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Connections

Featured in Great Movie Mistakes IV (2012)

User Reviews

How to Make a Movie in the Dark

I am struggling to actually review this movie, not because of its weak story-line or because of its total lack of imagination, or even because of its gratuitous violence (most of which is hidden), but because the one thing that was missing was a lighting engineer. Yes folks, this is an object lesson in how to make a low budget blockbuster movie, though how much money was actually saved by shooting seventy-five percent of the film in darkness I don't know. However the other cost saving was certainly well designed, a few decent cameramen who could actually keep the shot in focus would have spoiled the whole thing for me. Out of focus darkness was entertaining for the first ten minutes, after that it became irritating, the big fight scene in the last ten minutes of the film is lost completely but then that will have saved on the cost of giving the monster too much detail, rather than leaving it a a piece of wet hose pipe. What a waste of time and money, not the production companies, but mine, I can sit in the dark with some flickering lights at home for free. There was one decent fight scene in the film about half way through, but it was certainly not worth the ticket price. One of the worst and most irritating films I have seen for a long time.