Back in the mid 1990s, swords-and-sorcery fantasy TV was riding high on the wave created by Xena: The Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Sadly, these excellent (Well, relatively. This WAS TV, after all.) efforts spawned several imitators, perhaps the worst being Max Keller's bastardization of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Conan the Adventurer. While many fans of the Schwarzenegger Conan movies rejoiced, those who were familiar with Robert E. Howard's truly ground-breaking fiction dispaired.

Those who were blessed enough to have missed this debacle will perhaps not understand just how truly bad it was. The writing was beyond attrocious, Ralf Moeller's acting was wooden at best and the production values made Gilligan's Island look like Lord of the Rings in comparison.

These scripts were originally conceived as a protest against what the audiovisual media have done to Robert E. Howard's Conan - an attempt to show what a Conan screenplay ought to be, that it is NOT impossible to adhere to REH's original concept in a screenplay.

The 4 screenplays are intended to give the lie to the slander that Conan spent half his youth in slavery, by showing:

• A youth of Conan that does not conflict with REH's original Conan bio, and

• That only a strong family life, and the extended support of an entire village/tribal structure, could have produced the Conan we know and love.

All screenplays are in PDF format, and are presented here in order. Please excuse any formatting inconsistencies between the files.

• Birth of a Hero ( 242kb )
• Just Another Raid ( 25kb )
• The Ordeal ( 250kb )
• The Sack of Venarium ( 201kb )
• The Snow Devil, Part 1 ( 114kb )
• The Snow Devil, Part 2: The Frost Giant's Daughter ( 114kb )
• The Snow Devil, Conclusion ( 38kb )