‘Conan The Barbarian’ Series To Bring More Swords And Sorcery To Netflix The Streamer
By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2020 11:00 am EST
Fredrik Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media are teaming up with Netflix to develop a new live-action Conan the Barbarian TV series as part of a new deal struck with Conan Properties International, which holds all the rights to the entire Conan literary library. The deal will allow Netflix to make TV shows and movies based on Conan, both in live-action and animation.
Deadline has news on the Conan the Barbarian TV series heading into development. It’s their latest major intellectual property acquisition, following their previous acquisition of the library of books in the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, and a variety of comic book adaptations from Mark Millar and his Millarworld banner.
First published in a series of short stories in Weird Tales magazine in 1932, Conan the Barbarian has been adapted into pretty much every single medium out there. Conan was actually the first major character in what is now known as the sword and sorcery genre of fantasy stories. Since then, he’s been at the center of countless comic books, feature films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, a few TV shows and animated series, several video games, and plenty of merchandise.
Since this partnership between Netflix and the Conan the Barbarian rights holders was only just announced, it’ll probably be awhile before we hear anything new about the series. After all, Netflix also has several He-Man projects in the works too, so they probably don’t want to be overrun with muscular men wielding swords. Or do they?
