Conan the Barbarian is finally returning to the small screen.
According to The Wrap, Cartoon Network Studios and Prime Video revealed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that a new animated series based on the Robert E. Howard-created character is in the works from animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky.
The official logline for the new series reads: “After finding love in the pirate queen, Bêlit, a battle-hardened Conan defies gods, fate and even death to save her from a dark sorcery that threatens to destroy everything.”
Tartakovsky apparently first pitched an animated version of the character in 2008. While various networks and streamers were interested in the project, nothing came of it until now. In a pre-taped video message that played at the festival, Tartakovsky joked that maybe he’d be able to share some animatics next year and some rough animation the year after that.
A first look at how Conan will look in the animated series can be viewed below:
Tartakovsky will serve as executive producer and showrunner on Conan the Barbarian. It marks the first time that Tartakovsky has worked with a preexisting IP since his Clone Wars micro-series for Lucasfilm back in 2003. HBO had let slip earlier this year that Tartakovsky was attached to an animated Game of Thrones project, but who knows where that might be in the development process.
Are you excited that Genndy Tartakovsky is bringing Conan the Barbarian back to your screen?
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