{"id":3795,"date":"2009-05-08T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:00:05","slug":"ratner-to-no-longer-ruin-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/08\/ratner-to-no-longer-ruin-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratner To No Longer Ruin CONAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/brettratner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1722\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"Brett Ratner, Crappy Movie Double Feature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/brettratner-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Well here&#8217;s some good news. It looks like director Brett Ratner is no longer set to direct the upcoming <strong>Conan<\/strong> film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150525024143\/http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=24745\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Empire<\/em><\/a> caught up with Conan producer Joe Gatta, who confirmed that Ratner is no longer set to helm a new adventure of writer Robert E. Howard&#8217;s barbarian swordsman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re currently in the process of hiring a director. For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn\u2019t work. But you never know what can happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though they&#8217;re still looking for a director, Gatta is still hoping that Conan will start filming on August 24th in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this still leaves Ratner free to still ruin <strong>Beverly Hills Cop IV<\/strong>, the Hugh Hefner bio-pic <strong>Playboy<\/strong>, a <strong>Boys From Brazil<\/strong> remake, <strong>Hong Kong Phooey<\/strong>, the comic book adaptations <strong>Youngblood<\/strong> and <strong>Harbinger<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well here&#8217;s some good news. It looks like director Brett Ratner is no longer set to direct the upcoming Conan film. Empire caught up with Conan producer Joe Gatta, who confirmed that Ratner is no <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/08\/ratner-to-no-longer-ruin-conan\/\" title=\"Ratner To No Longer Ruin CONAN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[199,636,57,22,72],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brett-ratner","8":"tag-conan","9":"tag-directors","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-pulps-to-film"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}