Genndy Tartakovsky to helm Conan the Barbarian animated series

Conan the Barbarian is returning to the screen as an animated series from Genndy Tartakovsky, announced at the Annency International Animation Film Festival. A preview image shows Conan rendered in Tartakovsky’s trademark style. Though produced by Cartoon Network Studios, the series is being developed for Amazon’s Prime Video rather than HBO Max or Adult Swim, both of which the Warner Bros.

conglomerate owns. Tartakovsky’s credits include Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Primal, and he also directed several Hotel Transylvania feature films for Sony. The character was created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s for Weird Tales; Conan is a sword-wielding brigand and mercenary in the Hyborian Age.

Howard died by suicide at 30, four years after creating the character, yet Conan endured through paperback collections and a Marvel comic series in the 1970s, reaching peak popularity in the 1980s with two films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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