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Ok, this is a bit of news I can get behind...
I would love nothing more than a good Red Sonja movie, although I believe the IP better suited for a Netflix show.EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Media will finance and produce a new version of Red Sonja and is looking to it as a new franchise for the company. The project will be produced by Millennium’s Avi Lerner and Joe Gatta alongside Cinelou’s Mark Canton and Courtney Solomon. They are fast-tracking this project and next will hire a writer.
Red Sonja is based on a heroine created by Robert E Howard as adapted into the Marvel comics of the 1970s. She has appeared in hundreds of comic books over the decades, which Dynamite Entertainment continues publishing today.
“We have been waiting for the right time for this remake,” said Lerner, “and with the success of Wonder Woman, the audience has spoken. They want female heroes.”
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The first Red Sonja film in 1985 starred (and introduced) Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger. This version will be different, with fresh story ideas and characters.
Can't think of anyone to play her though, off the top of my head.
Wasn't Rose McGowan slated to be Red Sonja at one point? I remember her touring comic cons or something trying to push for it. I thought it was already greenlit back then.