The cast of director Marcus Nispel's still-untitled Conan reboot is starting to look like a G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra reunion. With Rachel Nichols previously cast as love interest Tamara, THR reports that Said Taghmaoui has joined the cast as a leader of thieves who is saved by Conan (Jason Momoa) and ultimately becomes his ally.
According to Variety, Rose McGowan is also joining the cast as a "an evil half-human/half-witch" and not as Red Sonja, another character created by Conan author Robert E. Howard. McGowan was scheduled to appear in a Red Sonja movie in 2008, but the movie has been delayed until after Conan finishes production. Producer Robert Rodriguez explained the Red Sonja delays to MTV.
If I kept the project myself, we could've just made it, but it belonged to another company that had financing problems. They had to wait until they made a couple of other movies first. They're actually waiting until they make the Conan movie before they do that — to see how that works for them.
Conan is currently shooting in Bulgaria. The movie stars Momoa, Stephen Lang as antagonist Khalar Singh, and Ron Perlman as Conan's father, Corin.
Posted 03.18.10 by Ryan