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1	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $90 million. Box office, $48.8 million.
2	* CastTheExpert: Ukafa is played by Wrestling/BobSapp, a Mixed Martial Artist and professional wrestler who's no stranger to brawling.
3	* CreatorBacklash: In a 2022 interview, star Creator/JasonMomoa described the filming of the movie as "one of the best experiences I've had" but admitted that the finished product was "a big pile of shit", which he claimed was due to ExecutiveMeddling.
4	* CreatorKiller: While Momoa's career was able to recover, this film bombing ended the Hollywood career of director Marcus Nispel. He directed one low-budget horror film a couple years later (''Exeter'', which was released direct to TV), and retired from filmmaking afterward to become a property developer.
5	* StarDerailingRole: While Creator/JasonMomoa's career quickly recovered from the film's box-office failure, Creator/RachelNichols wasn't so lucky, with all her subsequent credits (aside from a supporting role in ''Film/AlexCross'' the following year) being either in television or low-budget horror films.
6	* StillbornFranchise: There were talks of starting a franchise, but the failure of the film prevented it.
7	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
8	** Among the actors originally considered for the part of Conan include Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/JaredPadalecki and Creator/KellanLutz... Damn, those would have been painful.
9	** Creator/DolphLundgren and Creator/MickeyRourke were in talks to play Corin, Conan's father. Schwarzenegger was offered the role, but he declined.
10	** Marique was supposed to be a male character called Fariq, and he would be considered an unworthy heir to Zym by his [[TheDragon right-hand man]] Ukafa. After Rose [=MacGowan's=] casting, the character was [[GenderFlip rewritten as a woman]] then served as TheDragon to Zym, while Ukafa was relegated to a MookLieutenant.
11	** Originally there would have been a child queen called Illira in the story whom Tamara served as bodyguard alongside an AmazonBrigade, and they would end up separated when Zym invaded their monastery, with Tamara joining Conan in hopes of saving her protégé. In the end, Tamara was combined with elements from Illira.
12	* WrittenInInfirmity: Young Conan gets splashed with molten metal on the day his father dies, giving him scars that align with a real life scar Creator/JasonMomoa has.

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