Reception
Conan the Destroyer received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Despite some the lukewarm critical response, the film succeeded at the box-office upon its 1984 release, grossing a respectable $31 million in the U.S. and an additional $69 million in international markets. This success led Schwarzenegger, Fleischer, and De Laurentiis to team up again to make Red Sonja a year later; however, Red Sonja was a critical and commercial disappointment and ended Schwarzenegger's involvement in sword-and-sorcery films.
Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway wrote the original story treatment, but were dissastified with the final screenplay by Stanley Mann and the finished film. They made their story into the graphic novel Conan: The Horn of Azoth, published in 1990, with art by Mike Docherty. The names of the characters were changed to distance the graphic novel from the movie: Dagoth became Azoth, Jehnna became Natari, Zula became Shumballa, Bombaata became Strabo, Toth-Amon became Rammon, and the characters of Queen Taramis and The Leader were combined into sorcerer Karanthes, father of Natari.
Robert Jordan wrote a novelization of the film in 1984 for Tor.
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