Netflix may be developing a live-action Conan the Barbarian TV series, says GeekTyrant. According to their article, the project is a result of a deal between the streaming service and Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler’s company Pathfinder Media. The arrangement gives Netflix the exclusive option to develop works across TV and film, both live-action and animated.
Malmberg owns Conan Properties International and holds the rights to adapt the adventures of the world’s most famous barbarian. Malmberg already produced the 2011 Conan the Barbarian movie starring Jason Momoa (Aquaman), as well as the horror film Let Me In, crime drama Broken City and the post-apocalyptic TV series Blood Drive.
As for Conan himself, he is the literary creation of the 1930s pulp writer Robert E. Howard. It first appeared in the December 1932 issue of Weird Stories magazine in the tale titled The Phoenix on the Sword. Alongside writers like Fritz Leiber, Howard helped to create a fantasy subgenre known as swords and sorcery. Over the next decades, the popularity of Conan waxed and waned. The muscled barbarian regained popularity when Marvel Comics launched its Conan the Barbarian comic book in the 1970s and reached an apex with John Milius’ 1982 film adaptation that helped jumpstart the Hollywood career of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
At the moment, the producers are seeking people to help run this project, including head writer, director, and showrunner.
