{"id":5645,"date":"2010-01-21T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:21:25","slug":"momoa-selected-as-new-conan-the-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/momoa-selected-as-new-conan-the-barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Momoa Selected as New Conan the Barbarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/sga-s4-ronon.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex\" title=\"Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex (S4)\" width=\"270\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-997\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/hollywood\/toldja-conan-the-barbarian-hires-momoa\/\">Deadline.com<\/a>, <em>Stargate<\/em> star Jason Momoa (SGA&#8217;s Ronon Dex) has been selected to play Conan in the new <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em> movie!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fleming reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EXCLUSIVE: Today&#8217;s the day for all things Conan to be resolved. First, there was Conan the late night host getting a whopping check to leave. Now, Conan the Barbarian has been crowned. I hear that Millennium Films, Lionsgate, and rights holder Paradox Entertainment have approved Jason Momoa to star in Conan, the rebirth of the Robert E. Howard-created series. The brawny star of Stargate Atlantis who also stars in HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones, Momoa got the nod over Kellan Lutz, the Twilight guy. I told you that the search for Conan had come down to the duo. Sources said that director Marcus Nispel was sold on Momoa, and won over the filmmakers by shooting a few trial scenes that allowed Momoa to wield a sword and behave very Schwarzenegger-like. This keeps the film on course for a March 15 production start in Bulgaria, and it closes a long ordeal in bringing the saga back to the screen. Paradox originally set up the film with Warner Bros in 2002, and then moved it over to Millenium in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to Jason!<\/p>\n<p><em>[Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/josephmallozzi.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/21\/january-21-2010-jason-momoa-the-new-conan-interpret-my-dreams-creative-engagements\/\">Joseph Mallozzi<\/a> for the tip!]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Deadline.com, Stargate star Jason Momoa (SGA&#8217;s Ronon Dex) has been selected to play Conan in the new Conan the Barbarian movie! Mike Fleming reports: EXCLUSIVE: Today&#8217;s the day for all things Conan to be resolved. First, there was Conan the late night host getting a whopping check to leave. Now, Conan the Barbarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/momoa-selected-as-new-conan-the-barbarian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Momoa Selected as New Conan the Barbarian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantis","category-press","tag-jason-momoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}