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High-Res Images: Rose McGowan as Red Sonja

It's just like being at Comic-Con...

Can't quite picture Rose McGowan as the flame-haired barbarian swordswoman Red Sonja? We've got the first look at the sexy teaser poster and character art unveiled yesterday at Comic-Con! Images after the jump.

When Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan abandoned plans to remake Jane Fonda's space vehicle Barbarella, they merely turned their attentions to another redhead vixen: Red Sonja. While 1985's film adaptation starring Brigitte Nielsen played (and bombed) as a chick version of Conan the Barbarian, the 2009 version to be produced by Rodriguez with McGowan in the title role is shaping up to be much closer to the Red Sonja seen in comics, more specifically as published in the past several years by Dynamite Entertainment. Take a look and see for yourself!

Red Sonja


Red Sonja



The official synopsis, courtesy of Nu Image/Millenium Films:

In her return we find Red Sonja, a young girl risen from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared woman warrior of all time. The mythical red-head blindly seeks vengeance on those who destroyed her family. In her path of destruction she discovers a larger purpose for her unearthly powers: to save all Hyrkania from the villainous Kulan Gath.

Red Sonja is slated for 2009 and will be directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (Highlander: Endgame).

HyperionChild

HyperionChild on 07-25-2008 09:54 AM

Well.....at least she seems to have all her limbs this time.

-apocolyptic-

-apocolyptic- on 07-25-2008 10:09 AM

LOL.....too bad, kinda liked the shotgun leg.

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 10:10 AM

Thanks for the boner.

dougkip

dougkip on 07-25-2008 10:43 AM

wtf is this? i thought rodriguez was directing this!?

reapermad

reapermad on 07-25-2008 11:19 AM

Holy lord I cannot wait. I hope Rose and Rodriguez become the next Uma and Tarantino. They work with one another so well. This ought to be an interesting outing. But, hey, anyone know if they're going to make Machete? I'm also dying to know if Eli Roth is ever going to make "Thanksgiving."

Moonpig123

Moonpig123 on 07-26-2008 12:37 PM

I think Machete is scheduled to come out near enough to Sin City 2. So, in the next couple of years (probably about 2011). Looks pretty ****ing, cool, doesn't it? For me it was the best of the fake trailers in Grindhouse.

SpikesInMySkull

SpikesInMySkull on 07-25-2008 11:19 AM

Well I'm trying to figure out what about that doesn't look retarded...

....thinking....

....thinking....


....yeah I got nothing.

....Oh and it's "Presented By" Rodgriquez and directed by Captain Nobody.

Yeah, my GAS meter has failed to register. NEXT!

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 12:07 PM

No one thinks elitism is cool anymore, captain 2001.

Matanuki

Matanuki on 07-25-2008 01:04 PM

You said it, Bruce.

But cabezone, I gotta tell ya buddy, I'm no big Rose McGowan fan myself but ah... she doesn't look like she "might occasionally hit the gym"?

cabezone

cabezone on 07-25-2008 03:29 PM

Being thin is not the same thing as being in shape. she doesn't look like she's ever had any kind of exercise, unless you include vomiting and cigarettes. She'd have trouble even lifting a sword like that. I'm not looking for some kind of freakishly strong woman but some definition would be nice.

MrbatMatt

MrbatMatt on 07-25-2008 11:51 AM

Hmmmm... well this does seem about as stupid an idea as the Barbarella remake... so maybe this one will get canceled too because Rose simply can't act. Anyone remember "Scream"? She got killed by a garage door opener... some how I can't picture there was too much acting involved there.

cabezone

cabezone on 07-25-2008 12:19 PM

Is it too much to ask for an action heroine who looks like she might occasionally hit the gym?

CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe

CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe on 07-25-2008 01:26 PM

unfortunately, it is too much ask cabezone. Still, I do believe

Rose McGowan could beat me up pretty badly, so that's enough for me ;)

tomwaitsjrHAPPYICONOCLAST

tomwaitsjrHAPPYICONOCLAST on 07-25-2008 01:27 PM

I shall watch this. I may turn the volume to mute, but I shall watch this. Probably some scenes more than others. . . oh yes.

Jen Yamato

Jen Yamato on 07-25-2008 02:16 PM

Wasn't she killed by the garage door, not the opener? :)

Agreed on her lack of muscles, but McGowan is one of few actresses in Hollywood that has a believable fierceness about her. I buy it. Just glad nobody is touching my beloved Barbarella!

MrbatMatt

MrbatMatt on 07-26-2008 06:26 AM

Very true, but you gotta wonder if that was some sort of improv-gone-wrong. I picture the director telling her to run up the stairs and through the door to freedom yet she kept going through the cat door... so really I can't picture her swinging a sword without really killing a lot of people on the set in the process

Crenshaw

Crenshaw on 07-25-2008 02:28 PM

Epic Fail.

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 03:14 PM

Why?

Or is this just more talking-out-of-assiness....

Mister_Prophet

Mister_Prophet on 07-25-2008 03:08 PM

I'm actually into this idea. Despite some hysterical moments (guy getting mashed by a giant round door), the 80s Red Sonya really was kind of a Conan yarn and didn't feel like much else. So I don't think anyone has anything to lose giving this a shot.

Robocop, well, that's a different story...

Read-A-Book

Read-A-Book on 07-25-2008 03:15 PM

Um, based on the posters, is this an action film or porn?

My guess is porn.

planetawesome

planetawesome on 07-25-2008 10:37 PM

somewhat porno. yeah, sonja, you lick that big, dribbling sword.

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 03:49 PM

Anyone who would sacrafise Rose's sexiness for realism is obviously not the kind of person who Red Jonja is made for.

This is just one huge b-movie... If you take it seriously, you fail. Rose will be thin. And? So what?

Young Turk

Young Turk on 07-30-2008 03:11 PM

Seriously, if you want a buff chick go watch the first one with the extra ugly Bridgette Nielson.

DarthWonka

DarthWonka on 07-25-2008 03:57 PM

Why does it look like freakin' Sin City?

Mister_Prophet

Mister_Prophet on 07-25-2008 04:02 PM

Because it knows how to be awesome.

Pleasuretown

Pleasuretown on 07-25-2008 04:07 PM

I'm actually excited about this. McGowan and Rodriguez work pretty well together. And if it's going to be anything like Planet Terror, i'm down. It would be nice if she added just a bit of definition, maybe she will? These are just teaser posters.

Rock_The_Luau

Rock_The_Luau on 07-25-2008 05:16 PM

Does anyone else think the first poster looks hilariously awful and completely fails at being sexy in the least bit?

I do...

The second one's nice, though.

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 06:03 PM

No.

u1sart

u1sart on 07-25-2008 06:16 PM

You kno some of you biatches who making these comments and sht about Red Sonja, never have nuthin good to say about nuthing but as soon as the trailer comes out you biatches change your minds and talk about it looks nice and what have you, little hipocrite biatches... RED SONJA is a hoping movie for me cause at least we can see a movie with a nice "female" who can be in a action movie instead of the every day male action movies.. time for a change, suck on that you hipocrit bastards.........

fluxboy

fluxboy on 07-25-2008 06:18 PM

I'd hit it.

jokerboy1991

jokerboy1991 on 07-25-2008 07:26 PM

LOL...wouldnt we all....wouldnt we??!?!?!? -yes

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-25-2008 07:58 PM

Hey, I've loved Rose since The Doom Generation.

Get in line.

Brad 3000

Brad 3000 on 07-25-2008 11:28 PM

Way to name drop a terrible Greg Araki film. If you loved anything because of that movie, you are a bigger idiot than I thought. Way to go fake Bruce.

Some guy you dont know

Some guy you dont know on 07-26-2008 09:16 AM

Tell me, Mr.Nobody.... What's it like being an elitist? The scum of the earth? And what's it like talking to someone who'll have one of the most viewed journals on the site in a few days?

Oh, and that film is decent. So much better than it's famous for. Besides it's 50% fresh, which confirms it aleast decent by this site. You not liking it only proves your own ignorance, and not mine. Besides who are you for me to care what you think? Some random nobody who came out of nowhere and thought he could be cool and edgy by attacking my half-serious comment, which I was joking about. But noooooo, captain nobody misses my blatant joke just like your mother missed the abortion date.

Besides, captain nobody, give me one other reason why I'm an idiot. I bet ya' can't, because, as I said, you lie by your teeth because you're nothing. And the simple fact that you 'hate' me just proves your lack or originality or sense of humor. Plus I also have the seaping feeling you may be gay for not liking this poster, which, considering you're an idiot, and idiots are homophobes, I guess that also proves that you hate yourself captain tool.

earthbound

earthbound on 07-25-2008 08:52 PM

She is so powerful that I can see her RIBS!

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