{"id":10512,"date":"2014-08-21T05:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2014-08-09T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T22:39:35","slug":"15-things-you-might-not-know-about-conan-the-destroyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10512","title":{"rendered":"15 Things You Might Not Know About “Conan the Destroyer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I enjoyed Chris Hutchinson’s<\/strong> 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Conan the Destroyer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0more than the movie Conan the Destroyer<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Here are my three favorite things…<\/p>\n

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1. THE DIRECTOR INSPIRED HIS WAY.<\/h4>\n

Director John Milius drew major inspiration for the first Conan movie,\u00a0Conan the Barbarian<\/em>, from 1958\u2019s\u00a0The Vikings<\/em>. When Milius was unavailable to direct the Conan sequel,\u00a0Conan the Destroyer<\/em>, producer Dino De Laurentiis went to the original source by hiring\u00a0The Vikings<\/em>director Richard Fleischer. [They should have waited for Milius. – Craig]<\/p>\n

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11. ANDRE THE GIANT MAKES A VERY SUBTLE CAMEO.<\/h4>\n

Who was the actor underneath the rubber suit created for the monstrous deity Dagoth? None other than Andr\u00e9 Ren\u00e9 Roussimoff, better known as the wrestler Andr\u00e9 the Giant.<\/p>\n

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15. AND THEN POLITICS SCRAPPED ANOTHER SEQUEL.<\/h4>\n

Original director John Milius came close to making a third Conan movie with Schwarzenegger in 2002. His script, entitled \u201cKing Conan: Crown of Iron,\u201d was to be directed by\u00a0The Matrix<\/em>\u2019s Andy and Lana Wachowski, but was scrapped after Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. [Can you imagine what that Conan film would have looked like. \u00a0Crom! \u00a0– Craig]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: Mental Floss<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoyed Chris Hutchinson’s 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Conan the Destroyer\u00a0more than the movie Conan the Destroyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10514,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions\/10514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}