Jul 10 2011

Cool new poster for this summer’s ‘Conan the Barbarian’!

As the release date for Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian gets closer, I find myself cautiously optimistic for it. The previous posters and trailers have made it look like a potentially good time at the movies. The cast is good, the production values are there, and there looks to be more Robert E. Howard here than in Milius’ 1982 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Additionally, after seeing Jason Momoa do his berserker thing on HBO’s Game of Thrones, I’ve convinced he can give us a Conan worthy of the character’s legacy.

Now we have this latest poster, which will no doubt look nice sitting in a theater lobby. Still, Nispel’s last movie, Pathfinder had some striking posters and still amounted to a limp swashbuckling disappointment.

What do you think? How does it fare against the promo art for previous Howard adaptations?

Check them out below. For kicks, I’ve even included Kull the Conquerer.