W ogóle to arcyciekawe jak De Laurentis nakręcił kolejny ripoff Conana, bo nie miał kasy na prawa autorskie do tej postaci:
Arnie was tied into a multi-picture deal with Dino de Laurentis and that Dino's strong desire was to create another Conan feature given the financial success of the two previous films. He'd even gone as far as pre-announcing that the next film would be based on the book "Conan the Conqueror".
Dino de Laurentis unfortunately faced two major obstacles, both of which related to his budget;
The character rights for the Conan character were held by Universal and de Laurentis was evidently unable to secure them at a reasonable price.
Arnie was tied into a multi-picture deal with Dino de Laurentis and that Dino's strong desire was to create another Conan feature given the financial success of the two previous films. He'd even gone as far as pre-announcing that the next film would be based on the book "Conan the Conqueror".
Dino de Laurentis unfortunately faced two major obstacles, both of which related to his budget;
The character rights for the Conan character were held by Universal and de Laurentis was evidently unable to secure them at a reasonable price.
Arnold's bargain-basement salary deal meant that he couldn't be forced to work a full shooting schedule
Rather than simply abandon the whole project, de Laurentis had what must have seemed a master stroke. He managed to secure the rights to a less well known (and much cheaper) comic-book property called Red Sonja. Sonja was still set in the Hyborian universe which saved him from having to rethink the screenplay and he wouldn't need Arnie to work full time since he would effectively become the co-star of a Sonja film rather than the star of a Conan film. As an added bonus, his writers could simply rehash some existing Conan + Sonja books into the screenplay without having to worry about the rights issues.
Unfortunately for de Laurentis script issues, rock-bottom budget and dire casting choices would ultimately produce what Arnie referred to as "the worst film I've ever made".
In specific answer to your question; the party line is that Sonja and Conan will never meet. In reality, of course we can see that de Laurentis used the Sonja character rights as a figleaf for a 'Conan-in-all-but-name' film.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49415/was-kalidor-explicitly-intended-to-be-conan
22-09-2025, 11:12 (Ten post był ostatnio modyfikowany: 22-09-2025, 11:13 przez Scheckley.)
