So, Ratner Won’t be Screwing Up ‘Conan’

Many of our prayers to Crom have been answerd. Â  Evidently, Brett Ratner, the director most known to take a decent project and turn it into utter, commercialized crap, is off the ‘Conan’ film.

Empire magazine caught up with producer Joe Gatta, who is working on ‘Conan’ and ‘Red Sonja’ projects, and he had a few bits of information to pass out. Â  One, in particular, leads everyone to believe Ratner is officially done with the film.

“We’re currently in the process of hiring a director,” Gatta said. “For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn’t work. But you never know what can happen.”

Gatta went on to talk about the production start date of the film and a little about ‘Red Sonja.’

“We have a potential start-date on Conan of August 24. And we’ll be shooting in Bulgaria. I would say though the emphasis is on Conan [rather than Red Sonja]. It’s our crown jewel here at the company and that will be the leader. Red Sonja probably won’t happen until next year, as far as making it goes. So we want to launch Conan and reinvent the franchise.”

Of course, in the next few months, schedules could clear up and Ratner could be back in the director’s chair, but, for now, all seems right in the world.

What do you think? Â  Who would you like to see in the director’s chair of ‘Conan’ and/or ‘Red Sonja’? Â  Who would you like to see play Conan? Â  Could Ratner actually pull off a decent job at filming these films? Â  How many times a day do you actually pray to Crom? Â  Let us know by commenting below!

Oh, and what is best in life?

Source: Empire Online