Geek Movies From The Summer Of 1982 - Conan The Barbarian

Before he uttered the sentence that became his catch phrase with “I’ll be back’ Arnold Schwarzenegger was Conan The Barbarian.   Conan The Barbarian kicked off the summer of 1982 geek films and this movie isn’t all that bad.  Plus there is some good sword play in this movie also.

The Geek Movies From The Summer Of 1982

The summer of 1982 has been heralded as one, if not the best, summer for movies.  Hell the whole damn year was pretty awesome for movies.   Films like Ghandi, Tootsie,  The Dark Crystal, 48Hrs and An Officer and A Gentlemen.  Heck a certain action hero had two movies out that year as Sylvester Stallone starred in Rocky 3 and brought Rambo to us for the first time in First Blood.   Stalwarts like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson had movies out also with Firefox and Death Wish 2.  But I’m going to focus on a particular geek selection of movies that came out during the summer movie season. Now there won’t be any reviews in this article but more of a remembrance.  The reviews will come later and be more in depth.  Now let’s go back 30 years to 1982 and remember that summer of some of the finest movies to hit the geek world.

'Conan the Litigant:' Rights to Character Subject of Stan Lee Media Inc. Lawsuit

The new "Conan the Barbarian" movie opened to weak reviews from critics and a lukewarm reception at the box office. Now, the lawyers are piling on.

Stan Lee Media Inc., the company founded by Stan “The Man” Lee, is suing the producers of the movie for all of the film's profits and all future rights to the character. The company has been pretty much dormant since filing for bankruptcy in 2001. Like any dead comic book character, though, Stan Lee Media has risen from the ashes. One of the revitalized company's first moves was filing its lawsuit on Friday, the same day the movie opened.

As reported Tuesday by Scott West of sciencefiction.com:

Lawyers for the company claim that all the company’s publishing rights, including those for Conan, which were aquired in 2000, were locked down and unable to be traded or sold until the bankruptcy was settled. The company claims that “the shares of Conan Properties and all other assets of SLMI were part of a bankruptcy estate and protected from unauthorized transfer by the automatic bankruptcy stay.”

Since the new film, which cost a reported $90 million, is off to a slow start, the issue would appear to be less about money and more about future rights to the character.

Paging Matt Murdock.