Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway developed the original story treatment for the sequel, but they were dissatisfied with Stanley Mann's finished screenplay and with the movie that ultimately reached theaters. Rather than leave their version buried in development history, they reworked it into the 1990 graphic novel Conan the Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth, illustrated by Mike Docherty. The adaptation deliberately changed the names and identities of the major characters—Dagoth became Azoth, Jehnna became Natari, Zula became Shumballa, Bombaata became Strabo, and Thoth-Amon became Rammon—creating a legally safer, openly distinct version of the story and preserving the writers' rejected conception outside the film canon.
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The Conan Sequel's Original Writers Rebuilt Their Rejected Movie as a 1990 Graphic Novel
Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Conan the Destroyer / 1980s-1990s
Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway developed the original story treatment for the sequel, but they were dissatisfied with Stanley Mann's finished screenplay and with the movie that ultimately reached theaters. Rather than leave their version buried in development history, they reworked it into the 1990 graphic novel Conan the Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth, illustrated by Mike Docherty. The adaptation deliberately changed the names and identities of the major characters—Dagoth became Azoth, Jehnna became Natari, Zula became Shumballa, Bombaata became Strabo, and Thoth-Amon became Rammon—creating a legally safer, openly distinct version of the story and preserving the writers' rejected conception outside the film canon.
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