Conan the Barbarian is coming back bigtime, apparently. We’ve already been promised that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan will return in King Conan, from director Christopher McQuarrie. But there’s another barbaric take on the horizon: Polygon has the news that legendary animation creator Genndy Tartakovsky has an animated Conan series in the works at Prime Video.
Tartakovsky is the mind behind a whole lot of extremely good series, from Dexter’s Laboratory to the beautiful and upsetting Primal (don’t hurt the dinosaur!!!!). And apparently he’s been pitching his animated Conan since 2008.
There’s little detail yet on Tartakovsky’s take on the character, who was created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. We do have a poster (below), and a logline, which leaves something to be desired:
After finding love in the pirate queen, Bêlit, a battle-hardened Conan defies gods, fate and even death to save her from a dark sorcery that threatens to destroy everything.
As Polygon notes, the pirate queen Bêlit is an established Conan character who first appeared in the 1934 short story “Queen of the Black Coast.” She and Conan go and have pirate funtimes until she becomes obsessed with a cursed necklace and dies; naturally, Conan has to avenge her. Here’s hoping Tartakovsky does something different—and less dated—with this pirate queen.
