We've got your Friday evening movie rumor roundup. First off, Variety reports that New Line is eyeing a fresh take on the "Conan the Barbarian" franchse (yes, the one that launched the Governator into international dorkdom).  Apparently the box office gold seen by "300" has reignited the studio's interest in manly-man macho movies.  (One can only dream that said film would go live the same week "301" does.)  The price tag on the deal is pretty hefty: $1 million per year just to option the rights.  Warner Brothers has tried working a new script, with everyone from John Milius (who wrote the original script with Oliver Stone) to the Wachowski brothers, but the drafts fizzled and the option eventually expired.

IGN has a little more news on a potential "Luke Cage" project.  Actor Tyrese Gibson ("Transformers," "2 Fast 2 Furious") was previously announced as attached to the project after showing a strong interest.

Gibson said,  "You know, they're doing the rewrites on it right now. I have not officially signed on to be a part of it, but they have me in mind, so I'm honored.... The Luke Cage fans are out there. I see the emails and the blogs -- they want the best for the character. Hopefully, I'll be that guy...

if the script is right."

The movie rights to the character were held by Sony until recently, when they reverted to Marvel after languishing in development.  Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios President of Production said, "We never got a script on Luke Cage while it was at Sony that did it justice from our point of view or John [Singleton]'s point of view.  The rights since have reverted back to Marvel, but I would love to do a Luke Cage movie -- again, looking for ways to continue Marvel movies with fresh content and different points of view. I think Luke Cage would absolutely fit into that."

In "Trek" news, the Icelandic paper Fréttablaðið is apparently reporting that someone is location scouting.  Or might be.  Any Foxes speak Icelandic?

Finally, there's a little news from the "G.I. Joe" front.  IESB caught up with Hasbro CEO Brian Golder and quizzed him on the progress and the (according to rumor) wretched first draft script.

Golder said, "We're going to see an 'Origin: GI Joe/Cobra' story.  Obviously there have been comic books, the Marvel comic series.  I think for the fans, they should look to that as great source material, and great mythology, and clearly that's what we want to deliver.  I think you're going to see a lot of changes.  I would never look at an early script and say that's going to be it."