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Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)

2011 film by Marcus Nispel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 American sword and sorcery film based on the character created by Robert E. Howard, and starring Jason Momoa as Conan. The film was directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Sean Hood. Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Bob Sapp appear in supporting roles, while Morgan Freeman narrates the film. The story follows Conan, a barbarian warrior who was the sole survivor of his village's slaughter as a child, on his quest for vengeance against the warlord responsible for the massacre.

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The public source identifies “Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)” as 2011 film by Marcus Nispel. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Conan, Barbarian and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Conan, Barbarian and film providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.