Kellan Lutz confirmed he's one of the leading candidates to play Conan in the upcoming film based on Robert E. Howard's famous barbarian.
"I've been auditioning," Lutz told E Online. "They're finalizing so they're trying to figure out what happens next. I've been waiting for a while, doing screen tests. There are just so many cooks in the kitchen. If it happens, it happens."
According to yesterday's report, Lutz is competing with "Stargate: Atlantis" actor Jason Momoa and another unnamed actor for the role of a younger, though still muscular Conan. Details of the film's plot have been hard toc ome by, though Lutz did offer up his take on how the new Conan will differ from the version made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"It's not gonna be the new Arnold Schwarzenegger type of movie, no one's going to try and play that role," he said. "I think they're going younger, a different type of story. I'm just excited, because the script is great."
"It's something that I've been actively going after because I'd die to put the weight back on," he added. "I'm tired of playing young; I want to be the big guy that I was."
Lutz had previously expressed an interest in playing Captain America in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie based on the star-spangled superhero. With filming on "Conan" scheduled to begin in a few months, an announcement should be expected any day now regarding the actor who will bring the barbarian back to the big screen.
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