Conan The Barbarian (1982).Production Drawings and Photographs.Inedit.

From the 1970s, licensing issues had stood in the way of producing film versions of the Conan stories. Lancer Books, which had acquired the rights in 1966,[37][38] went into receivership, and there were legal disputes over their disposition of the publishing rights, which ultimately led to them being frozen under injunction.[37][39] Edward Summer suggested Conan as a potential project to Edward R. Pressman in 1975, and after being shown the comics and Frazetta's artwork, Pressman was convinced.[40] It took two years to secure the film rights.[37] The two main parties involved in the lawsuit, Glenn Lord and de Camp, formed Conan Properties Incorporated to handle all licensing of Conan-related material, and Pressman was awarded the film rights shortly afterwards.[41] He spent more than $100000 in legal fees to help resolve the lawsuit, and the rights cost him another $7500.[42] The success of Star Wars in 1977 increased Hollywood's interest in producing films that portray "heroic adventures in supernatural lands of fables".[43] The film industry's attention was drawn to the popularity of Conan among young male Americans, who were buying reprints of the stories with Frazetta's art and adaptations by Marvel Comics.[44] John Milius first expressed interest in directing a film about Conan in 1978 after completing the filming of Big Wednesday, according to Buzz Feitshans, a producer who frequently worked with Milius.[45] Milius and Feitshans approached Pressman, but differences ...

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