The Rat off Conan

Fast-talking snatch magnet Brett Ratner has been attached to the CONAN THE BARBARIAN remake for quite a while now and as far as we knew, all systems were go for The Rat to direct the beefcake action. However, “Empire Online” recently spoke to CONAN producer Joe Gatta and turns out Ratner has left the project. Says Gatta:

We’re currently in the process of hiring a director. For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn’t work. But you never know what can happen.

Did the producers not meet his “smoking hot extras for The Rat to bang” quota or something? In any case, read more about what Gatta had to say about the project HERE.