It's a great story where Conan was 40 years king...and he gets complacent, and he gets forced out of the kingdom, slowly. Then there's conflict, of course, and then he somehow comes back, and then there's all kinds of madness and violence and magic and creatures.
They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise's last four movies. They just hired [Christopher McQuarrie] to write and direct King Conan. He added that the part will be written to be "age-appropriate," where he will "still go in there and kick some ass, but it will be different."