Paradox Entertainment, the company that controls the rights to the characters of Robert E. Howard, has reached a deal with Dark Horse, the publisher of Conan comics, under which Dark Horse will publish comic book adaptations of Paradox film releases as well as comics based on more obscure Howard characters. Paradox has a Conan the Barbarian reboot in the works along with a Buck Rogers movie and a film based on Erich von Daniken’s hokum, The Chariots of the Gods. Variety indicates that the deal, which expands the previous agreements between the two companies, also gives Dark Horse the rights to such other, lesser known Howard characters as Dark Agnes, Cormac Mac Art, James Allison, and El Borak.
Paradox’s next release is a live action film version of Howard’s Solomon Kane written and directed by Michael J. Bassett (Deathwatch) with James Purefoy as the eponymous hero and Max von Sydow (see “Solomon Kane Cast Expanded”) as his father. The movie, which is the first film in a planned trilogy featuring the flintlock-toting, rapier-wielding 16th Century Puritan hero, is scheduled for release on October 28th.
