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sumi - Jan 22, 2010 5:05:43 am PST #6292 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

ita, you said "Conan" and I thought "O'Brian" and was confused.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 22, 2010 5:14:26 am PST #6293 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

ita, you said "Conan" and I thought "O'Brian" and was confused.

I was torn between that and "the Barbarian", but I'm guessing neither is right.


§ ita § - Jan 22, 2010 5:14:57 am PST #6294 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No, "the Barbarian." : [link]

Apparently Jared Padalecki was also up for the role.


Sean K - Jan 22, 2010 11:33:59 am PST #6295 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

it appears that Jason Momoa has been cast as Conan.

Ooh, interesting. He's also playing Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones (a very important and somewhat Conan-like character).


sumi - Jan 22, 2010 11:55:25 am PST #6296 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

One of the Song of Fire & Ice sites has already noted that shooting for Game of Thrones and for the Conan movie shouldn't conflict. (Should GoT get picked up that is.)


Sean K - Jan 22, 2010 12:00:13 pm PST #6297 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It really better get picked up, dammit.

Also, I think the piece of GoT casting I'm most excited about is Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane. Apparently the screen test was one of the pivotal scenes between him and Sansa Stark, and both McCann and the young girl (who got the part) gave everybody chills.

Yarp.


sumi - Jan 22, 2010 12:02:15 pm PST #6298 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Want to see.


Sean K - Jan 22, 2010 12:13:46 pm PST #6299 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I just finished rereading all four books at the end of last year. I started rereading in the hopes that book five would at least have an announced release date by the time I was finished, but I plowed through 4,000 pages in about a month, so.... Yeah. Still waiting.


Daisy Jane - Jan 22, 2010 12:56:54 pm PST #6300 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

A coworker is at Sundance [link]


Jessica - Jan 22, 2010 4:09:16 pm PST #6301 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Technically Dances With Dragons has a release date (April 2010, I think?) but I don't trust it since it also had a release date of October 2009 and god knows how many before that over the last five years.