![]() Having gone through the grinder writing the Conan screenplay, Stone appreciated a walk in the sunshine. Conan brimmed with beheadings, sex-crazed witches and James Earl Jones putting in the performance of his career as a philosopher-villain heading an evil snake cult. Scripted by Stone, starring Arnold as the eponymous shirtless warrior, it was a brutal brawn-fest. But at the time of their stroll, they were pinning their ambitions on the fantasy movie they were making together: Conan The Barbarian. ![]() Stone and Schwarzenegger would reshape Hollywood in their macho images within a few years. It was a walk to the seaside but also, in a way, into the future. ![]() ![]() One summer afternoon in the early Eighties, Oliver Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger went, in Stone’s words, “to Santa Monica Beach to hang out”. ![]()
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