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Conan the Barbarian Remake Swings at WB

Warner Bros. has hired Boaz Yakin (REMEMBER THE TITANS) to write and possibly direct a re-envisioned CONAN THE BARBARIAN, based on Robert E. Howards original character, VARIETY reports. WB hopes to start production in early 2007 with Irving Azoff, Jon Jashni, Richard Alexander and Akiva Goldsman producing. Peter Sederowsky and Fredrik Malmberg of Paradox Ent., the intellectual property company that owns the rights to the Howard estate, will exec produce.

Yakin's take on the character is more faithful to the Howard story than were the two Dino De Laurentiis-produced films that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Previously, WB had a new CONAN film in development at different points with THE MATRIX directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, and then Robert Rodriguez.

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