Conan The Barbarian

Barbarian beefcake fashions, from Conan to John Carter

With a remake of Conan the Barbarian coming out this Friday, it’s time to contemplate the awesomeness of sword and sandal movies. You know – movies set in the mythical days of antiquity, when everybody carried swords, wore sandals (or leather boots), and opened their mouths really wide while fighting. Nothing says “sword and sandal”…

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Steven Moffat teases old monsters and a new companion on Doctor Who. Plus tons more from the sets of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers!

Alfonso Cuarón is doing his best Stanley Kubrick impression in his stranded astronaut epic Gravity. David Tennant discusses his sleazy, vampire-fighting magician in Fright Night. Plus why Conan the Barbarian had to be R-rated — and Jean-Claude Van Damme fights aliens! Spoilers from this point forward! Top image from Fright Night. The Dark Knight Rises…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

New set photos reveal all-out superhero carnage in The Avengers!

Cleveland is playing the part of New York City in The Avengers, and a new batch of set photos reveal just how gigantic a battle Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will have to survive if they want to save the world. Also, new set photos reveal an aerial accident in The Dark Knight Rises. Rhys Ifans explains…

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The Blood and Awesomeness-Soaked Trailer that Conan DESERVES! [NSFW]

Come on, we’ve got a hard R new Conan film coming out with plenty of red band footage online. Did you think I wasn’t going to do a trailer? Alright, so obviously I grew up with the fun, if not slightly flawed, Arnold movies. BUT, as I grew older I did find the Robert E…

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You’ll never guess who’s in The Avengers, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Hunger Games and Del Toro’s Monster Movie!

Spoilergeddon! New Dark Knight Rises set photos may confirm a key plot point, and the Avengers cast may have just gotten bigger. Stanley Tucci joins The Hunger Games and a Sons of Anarchy star joins Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Plus our first photo of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, new Green Lantern and Conan posters,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon M. Jackson

Full-Length Conan the Barbarian Trailer: Tentacle Monsters and Blood Oaths!

What is cheesiest in life? Watching this brand-spanking-new Conan the Barbarian trailer should give you a pretty good idea. Conan can swing a sword so hard, it makes a giant boulder fly. He can withstand a million arrows. And yes, he can cope with the darkest sorcery, the nastiest dust devils, and what appears to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

25 awesome barbarian moments unjustly condemned to pop cultural obscurity

Being a barbarian is a thankless job. You spend all day slaying your foes in a loincloth and greased up in beef tallow, and nobody remembers your exploits. The zeitgeist moves on to pirates, vampires, zombies, and what have you. In honor of all those underappreciated barbarians out there in fiction, here are 25 moments…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How do you define badass fantasy?

It’s Badass Fantasy Day at io9! But before we kick the festivities off, what makes a fantasy tale demonstrably badass? To get a professional opinion on this matter, we recently talked with comic artist Darick Robertson, illustrator and co-creator of Transmetropolitan and The Boys. Robertson’s most famous works may be in science fiction and superheroes,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

28 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Could Rock Your Summer

Could this be the biggest movie summer of all time? It’s sure looking like it. Almost every weekend features at least one, and maybe two or three, movies with a science fiction, fantasy or comics pedigree. https://gizmodo.com/is-summer-2011-going-to-be-your-ultimate-movie-nerdgasm-5681270 There are superheroes, mutants, alien invasions, barbarians, monsters, tributes to Steven Spielberg, giant robots, boy wizards, weird horror…

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This Brazilian swords and sorcery music video is probably better than the new Conan movie

Stefhany Cross, the Brazilian pop singer who’s built a phenomenal online following, released this fantastic swords-and-sorcery-themed music video today. Apart from some of the clunky dance routines, this is the epic fantasy movie we want. As near as I can tell, a group of warrior women come out of the ocean waving swords and bows,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

According to the new Conan the Barbarian trailer, smoke is what’s best in life

Here’s the new teaser trailer for Conan the Barbarian — it’s low on Hyborean hijinks but high on the haze of war. By Crom, we hope that the next trailer will have antics on par with James Earl Jones turning into a snake, Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing a wheel for a decade, reptile-worshipping hippies, or that…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

In this exclusive artwork, Axe Cop and Conan the Barbarian will chop your head off

Dark Horse Comics just sent us some sneak peeks of their May comic line-up. Here’s a first look at Axe Cop brandishing his favorite chopping tool and a sword-wielding Conan the Barbarian drawn by Transmetropolitan artist Darick Robertson. This is the cover for Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #3 by 6-year-old Malachai Nicolle and his…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A musical version of Conan the Barbarian that must be seen to be believed

Have you ever wanted to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger sing (with a chorus) the line, “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women”? Now you can. And oh, it is glorious.

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You Ask, io9 Answers!

You may not be aware that io9 has something called the Observation Deck, which is pretty much the Open Thread that never sleeps. But the questions asked over there? They’re getting answered right here. Well, some of them. Bill-Lee asks the question you’ve all been thinking: I think I may be addicted to i09. Is…

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Just Another Day At The Office For Arnold

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Twitter: “I do still have the Conan sword, and I keep it in my office. Here’s a picture.”

io9 Meredith Woerner

Barbarian beefcake fashions, from Conan to John Carter

Steven Moffat teases old monsters and a new companion on Doctor Who. Plus tons more from the sets of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers!

New set photos reveal all-out superhero carnage in The Avengers!

The Blood and Awesomeness-Soaked Trailer that Conan DESERVES! [NSFW]

You’ll never guess who’s in The Avengers, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Hunger Games and Del Toro’s Monster Movie!

Full-Length Conan the Barbarian Trailer: Tentacle Monsters and Blood Oaths!

25 awesome barbarian moments unjustly condemned to pop cultural obscurity

How do you define badass fantasy?

28 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Could Rock Your Summer

This Brazilian swords and sorcery music video is probably better than the new Conan movie

According to the new Conan the Barbarian trailer, smoke is what’s best in life

In this exclusive artwork, Axe Cop and Conan the Barbarian will chop your head off

A musical version of Conan the Barbarian that must be seen to be believed

You Ask, io9 Answers!

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