Filming took place in Spain over five months in the regions around Madrid and the province of Almería. The final screenplay integrated scenes from Howard's stories and from the Japanese films Seven Samurai (1954) and Kwaidan (1965). Milius was appointed as director and he rewrote Stone's script. In 1979, after having his proposals for investments rejected by the major studios, he sold the project to Dino De Laurentiis his daughter Raffaella produced the film. Pressman lacked capital for the endeavor. It took them two years to obtain the film rights, after which they recruited Schwarzenegger for the lead role and Stone to draft a script.
Pressman and associate producer Edward Summer began a concerted effort to get the film made in 1975. Ideas for a Conan film were proposed as early as 1970 executive producer Edward R. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone.
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