The search for a new "Conan the Barbarian" is gathering pace, with Austrian actor Roland Kickinger the apparent front-runner to bag the role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 41-year-old is in talks to play the muscle-bound warrior, made famous onscreen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the early 1980s.
In a bout of life-imitating-art-imitating-life, Kickinger actually played Schwarzenegger in the 2005 TV movie "See Arnold Run", while following in Arnie's footsteps, he also appears as a T-800 in the recently released "Terminator: Salvation".
Marcus Nispel is set to shoot "Conan" in Bulgaria this autumn and while little else is known about the project at present, The Reporter claims that the film will be more reboot than remake, "drawing influences from more recent action pics."