Michael Sheen in BBC Four's 2006 "", and was nominated for a fourth Olivier Award in 2006 for portraying the broadcaster David Frost in "Frost/Nixon", a role he revisited in the 2008 film adaptation of the play. He also starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in "The Damned United" (2009). Since 2009 and into the 2010s, Sheen has become known for a wider variety of roles. In 2009, Sheen appeared in two fantasy films, "" and "", while in 2010, he made a four-episode guest appearance in the NBC comedy "30 Rock". He appeared in the science-fiction film "" (2010)
Adaptations of works by Robert E. Howard announced in 2005. Ron Perlman was cast as Conan with Cree Summer as Valeria. Peter Berg was signed up in 2008 as the director of a film based on and titled Bran Mak Morn. "Vultures", based on the novella "The Vultures of Wahpeton" was announced in 2006 and expected to be released in 2011. In 2003, a short film adaptation of Howard's short story "Casonetto's Last Song", directed by Brenda Dau and Derek M. Koch, was featured as an official selection of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The first Howard adaptation was not Conan related, although all subsequent examples