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Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod
Howard was and is still my favorite author. I started reading his stuff when I was in middle school... Had a huge collection of the Conan comics, too. The tales are part of what led me towards knife and sword makings in my early teens.
He wrote other tales too. The Brekenridge Elkins stuff is good, too.
There was supposed to be a plan to make another film of Conan as King of Aquilonia when Arnold became old enough... I don't know why they didn't.
I liked the newer film quite a bit. It's imagery stayed true to form, I'd say. Raw and harsh. I thought it was very true-to-Howard's vision.
FYI, There's a movie out about Howard called The Whole Wide World with Vincent D'onofrio. It's quite good.
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Hello Wolfe....
Thank you for the reply and info - interesting about the impact Howard had on your life! For me as well I have to say. No knife or sword making but just the fact the books were so well written and the fantasies were close to what I wanted to see myself living out - kinda hard to put into words but let's just say the term "wench" was 'muttered' on more than a few occasions since those days.....and those occasions let's just say were in a very similar context as many in the books...ha ha.
Getting back to Howard....I just found the trailer for "The Whole Wide World" and it looks pretty good:
I've always liked D'Onofrio and Zellweger as his G.F.....should be very entertaining! Thanks for the head's up...
