Raves could be in store for the remake of Conan the Barbarian. The movie was taken over by Platinum Dunes, this production company has several supporters including Paramount Pictures’ president, Adam Goodman, who said of Platinum Dunes that is responsible for bringing several big-name horror franchises to the box office, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, and the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street, “What makes us so excited to have Platinum Dunes here at Paramount is how … they have consistently created excitingly commercial movies that have proven to be a formidable force at the box office.”
With this level of success behind the remake of the Conan movies, which if we follow most of the remakes coming from Platinum Dune, it will be a mix of all the films together in a blender with an attempt at a new look, the Conan remake is going to be a bloody good time.
Platinum Dunes did well with the movie Pathfinder, the story of a young Norse boy who is a survivor of a shipwreck on the eastern shores of America and raised by the Native American Indians. When he is grown, the Norse invaders return, and he finds himself fighting against his own people for the sake of his Indian family. The action is great and the visual effects were very well done in this movie.
Platinum Dunes is a production company that was founded around 2001 by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. While the company does specialize in horror films, and really in the remake of horror films, they have on occasion strayed to the remake of other genres such as Conan. Paramount Pictures announced in 2009 that they were entering a first-look deal with Platinum Dunes and they planned to branch into more action and thrillers.
Platinum Dunes have several remakes under their belt, and they have never spared on the bloody gore in the process, which mens that we should see a great deal of blood splattering around the remake of the new Conan movie that is scheduled to be released in 2011. If you look at the remakes that Platinum Dunes has went through already you will see that they steadily double their beginning budgets and more, so this makes their work very attractive to companies like Paramount. In fact, Platinum Dunes has never lost money on their projects, again, this is in their favor.
Upcoming releases from Platinum Dune include the remake of Friday the 13th Part II (2011), The Birds (TBD), The remake of Conan the Barbarian (2011), The Butcherhouse Chronicles (TBD), Fiasco Heights (TBD), and several other films in the works.
