OK, You may not recognize the name, but he made his fist appearance in Kull short story written by Robert E. Howard published in 1967. Still not ringing a bell he was the antagonist in Conan the Movie and was played by James Earl Jones. Thulsa Doom is apparently hot for reason. He has a new comic and has a film in development starring Djimon Hounson. Here’s some excerpts from a interview with the writer of the new Thulsa Doom comic by Dynamite0 Entertainment. (That Alex Ross cover makes him look like a real bad ass)
Source: Newsarama
NRAMA: Okay then, broad view, who is Thulsa Doom? Most are probably familiar with him via the Conan movie as you mentioned earlier, but is that transferrable here in Dynamite’s version?
AN: Our story takes place thousands of years before Conan’s time. Thulsa isn’t necessarily evil… yet. But he has irresistible charisma, that “cult of personality” the very best and the very worst people seem to have. He hasn’t decided how he’s going to use that power yet. He doesn’t know whether he wants to be Mussolini or Gandhi.
NRAMA: Somewhat in that vein, when looking at “epic” villains such as Thulsa Doom, the concept of destiny is interwoven, sometimes to the point that the villain has very little choice in his destiny. How much is that the case with Thulsa?
AN: There’s no definitive answer to that question, is there? That tension between fate and free will is one of the things we’ll deal with in the series. Thulsa is always a mystery, not just to other people, but to himself.
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This post was written by Lobo on May 27, 2009
