Among the Robert E. Howard characters that Paradox owns is Conan.
Paradox Entertainment, which owns literary rights to Robert E. Howard's "Conan" character, has purchased the rest of the pulp-fiction scribe's library, some 800 other literary properties.
Among the characters Paradox now controls are Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane and Red Sonya. Howard published most of his stories in pulp mags including Weird Tales, Spicy Adventure and Strange Detective in the 1920s and 1930s.
Paradox purchased "Conan" in 2002 and bought the rest of the library from the Texas-based Alla Ray Morris Generation Skipping Exemption Trust.
Paradox hopes to license its new literary properties for film, TV, vidgames, comics, toys and other areas.
"King Conan: Crown of Iron," a remake of John Millius' 1982 adaptation "Conan the Barbarian," has long been in development at Warner Bros. But the project hit a bump in 2003 when Arnold Schwarzenegger, the breakout star of "Conan," was elected governor of California.
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