SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

April 4, 2002 —

From Enertainment Weekly:

Don't think creaky franchise. Think ''The Matrix'''s Wachowski brothers, who will exec-produce with Jon Jashni. The latter says writer-director John Milius (who helmed the 1982 original) will use Arnold's age to make Crown ''Lear-like.'' As in the book series, Conan passes the torch to his son, Kon, a role Jashni had wanted The Rock to play before Universal greenlit the similarly sandy battle pic ''The Scorpion King.'' Now Jashni's eyeing Vin Diesel, among others, and promises ''a blood-drenched third act.... We're getting back to the fundamentals.'' And so, it seems, is Arnold.