Something about contracts and sunk costs plus a little bit of egotism are what I’ve read is making Amazon double down.
The head of streaming that approved / pushed it (after cancelling a Conan the Barbarian show well into production already, by the guys who went on to make House of the Dragon), named Jennifer Salke, got fired earlier this year. Most of her bad call projects got cancelled but it seems they had too much money in this one.
A Conan show could be interesting if done correctly.
Try to capture the spirit of the Howard books? Which if I recall correctly were quite creepy. Read them like 40 years ago so my memory is not reliable here.
Much like the bitter fan who knows way too much about the 3rd string QB for the local NFL team, I will provide a personally highly cathartic info dump about this whole situation, and hopefully answer your question too. 
It would have definitely tried to capture the spirit of the books. Amazon at the time was trying to produce their own Game of Thrones, so an Adult themed Conan show was right up their alley.
However, while it was still in development the former head of content development for Amazon, a guy named Roy Price, who was very supportive of the show, was fired in 2017 by Amazon because he made improper advances against a woman named Isa Hackett who worked on The Man in the High Castle. You won’t see me defending him at all, but him getting canned set a whole bunch of disappointment in motion.
They hired the aforementioned Jennifer Salke to replace him, and she started all that “toxic masculinity” nonsense, beginning with using it as justification to cancel the Conan show.
She replaced that show with Wheel of Time and Rings of Power, both highly substandard shows that I despised for how badly they represented their source material, so yeah I kinda have a grudge against her and it’s why I know all these details. It took me a while, but I had to figure out who was ruining some of my favorite nerdy things.
Anyway, Ryan Condal, who was the creative force behind the Conan show, moved over to HBO and helped develop House of The Dragon with Miguel Sopachnik who did some of the best later Game of Thrones episodes , including Battle of the Bastards. Sopachnik left HotD before last season though, and Condal is flying solo now as the sole producer of that show. That show has some issues because they cut out the most pivotal event (which would have been covered in 2 additional episodes) from the end of last season due to budgetary reasons.
As the AI summary said, Robert Rodriguez tried to get the Conan show going again on Netflix but it never panned out and the rights lapsed.
Very interesting. Thanks advocate
Finally started The Studio.
I don’t remember if anyone posted on it yet but damn it’s funny. Highly recommended!!!
Totally agree. One of the best series of the year for me.
Watched “Dept Q” on Netflix over the weekend. Highly recommend it. It’s a British crime thriller set in Scotland. It has a “House MD” vibe in that the lead detective is a cantankerous SOB that is the best in the business and is tasked with solving a previously unsolvable case. There’s only one season so far, but I imagine it’ll get picked up for a second.
And a Belichick reference too! 
So many shows and not enough time. Currentlly on my list that I’m watching…
Severance
Only Murders in the Building
Dept Q
Andor
Landman
King of the Hill
Tires
The Chosen
Mr Robot
Shogun
We are still in the golden age of TV.
Lots of choices and a lot of high quality stuff.
Add The Studio to your list. On Apple TV. Awesome show.
I finished watching E60’s Southpaw last night. A must watch for any baseball fan, but especially those who were familiar with Jim Abbott in his playing days.
That’s (Studio) what made me think of my list. There’s no way I can add something else. 
I don’t know how you guya have time to watch all of this.
If you add 1 to 1.5 hours a day during the week to a few hours each weekend it adds up.
It’s more about consistency than anything.
We binge a show or two at a time.
Still no way I’ll ever see all the good stuff on my list.
Truly the golden age of TV.
Remember how TV was back in the 70s and 80s. Not even close.
There are so many good shows being made by so many outlets I don’t understand how they all stay solvent.
Just imagine how much money the big three networks were pulling in back in the day.
