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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 17, 2017 13:34:03 GMT -5
I've often wondered if Howard would have lived, would he have ever incorporated time-travel (most likely through sorcery) into his tales, allowing Kane and Conan to meet? Now that would have been one hell of fun team-up. Marvel could have done this at the very least back when they had both licenses. I doubt it. REH didn't linger on characters. He wrote them if someone was buying and if there was no market for it or he had no more stories to tell with a character, he dropped it and moved on. He was done with Kane and Kull before he started Conan, and Conan started as a reworking of a Kull tale he couldn't sell. Indications form his correspondence were that he was done with Conan too prior to his suicide and didn't have any more stories he wanted to try to sell (the unfinished stuff later used by his pastiche followers was stuff he either abandoned or Farnsworth Wright had showed no interest in buying) and was moving on to other characters and stories, so had he lived, I doubt there would have been more Conan stories at all, let alone going back to revisit Kane or Kull which he had abandoned 5+ years earlier. -M That's my guess as well. From what I've read in the Del Rey editions, he was moving towards the western as he preferred genre. Still, Howard had Bran Mak Morn meet Kull in "Kings of the Night" so it's not out of the realm of possibility. There is really no telling where Howard would have gone. Novels? Maybe even comics with the decline of pulp magazines and once they took off after Superman? He was such a natural with historical and quasi-historical fantasy I can't imagine him ever moving completely away from those sub-genres.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 17, 2017 16:05:40 GMT -5
I wonder who would have played Breckenridge Elkins in a movie version of A Gent from Bear Creek.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 18, 2017 1:18:29 GMT -5
I wonder who would have played Breckenridge Elkins in a movie version of A Gent from Bear Creek. I'm being serious when I say a young Vincent D'Onofrio. He was the perfect Howard and I could easily see him as Elkins.
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