Scarlett's warrior joy

Get thee into yon bikini, me lass

Good news and bad news. What do you want first? OK, the bad news.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate are remaking Conan and it's going to be the first of several sword-and-sorcery movies.

The good news? One of them is to be called Amazon and Scarlett Johansson is attached to play a female warrior.

Do you want a moment?

Scriptwriters Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain have been hired to rewrite the Conan The Barbarian tale and bring Robert E. Howard's muscly warrior back to the screen.

And hopefully turn it into an ongoing series. 'We all want this movie to go into production as soon as possible,' said producer Fredrik Malmberg said. 'It's a fast-tracked movie. 'Fans expect [these types of movies] to be more true to the source material,' he added.

'There's no reason there couldn't be a Conan movie every two years.

'He's almost like Batman: He's a dark hero. He's a hard hero. He has to be badass, but we also have to like him.' Easy.

Just add Scarlett Johansson to the mix. In a fur bikini.

Seriously, 90 minutes of Scarlett jogging in a fur bikini, every couple of years?

We'd pay to see it.

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