I was listening to Midnight’s Edge and he was going over the history of the proposed King Conan movie that never happened as well as the show that the stupid lady at Amazon rejected for being “too masculine”. Apparently the guy that would’ve been in charge would’ve been the same guy that was in charge of the He-Man animated series. You know the self professed fan who butchered the story. So the guy that has the Conan license decided not to work with Netflix.
Honestly this is a slam dunk. If HBO was smart they would do a Conan series with a hyper masculine lead,sex/nudity, and violence. It could be a hit for someone who accepts that pandering to “the modern audience” is a worthless endeavor
His name frequently pops up in movie recommendation circles, and even though I never remember his name, when I just looked him up he did two of my favourite recent films: Hell or Highwater and Wind River.
Guy is definitely doing the PR rounds by playing dumb about the "right leaning" stuff to keep the Lefties off his back, because both those films are the complete opposite of Left-wing propaganda. They can basically be summed up as: straight White male has to do what a man has to do to get the job done.
So yeah, it would be easy to see why people would be drawn to a show that carries similar principles as the films.