By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2018 7:30 am EST
The series comes from Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, and Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield.
The Conan TV series will be created and written by Condal, according to Deadline. Per Deadline, the series will be a retelling of the classic pulp hero’s story by returning “to his literary origins”:
Driven out of his tribal homelands, Conan wanders the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization where he searches for purpose in a place that rejects him as a mindless savage.
In 1982, the pulp fantasy character first leapt from the page to the big screen, played famously by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian and its sequel, Conan the Destroyer. A 2011 film starring Jason Momoa failed to achieve the status of Schwarzenegger’s well-regarded classic. There have also been two animated TV shows based on the character and a short-lived 1997 syndicated action-adventure series, Conan the Adventurer, starring Ralf Möller.
