The super hot Red Sonja posters were revealed yesterday at ComicCon as Rodriguez and ex-girlcandy Rose McGowan announced the film was a go. They also showed a few other things to show you what Rose will look like as the iconic warrior woman.
The posters look great. As well /Film reports:
Rodriguez also went on to explain that the film would be very dark, following more along the lines of the novels than the comics. The most important difference between this incarnation and the original, however, came courtesy of Rose McGowan, who noted, “I wont have a mullet.”
Amen. Mullets are not sexy.
Well as I predicted, Rose makes for a sexy hot chick in a chain mail bikini brandishing a badass sword. The flowing red hair is a bit much (still sexy but impractical) but it is probably the only thing that keeps her warm at night considering how little she is wearing. And oh my she is wearing little.
Speaking of little, did you notice that the sword she is using looks like it weights about as much as she does? I am still skeptical about how they are going to make this barbarian woman convincing flipping a sword like that around. They likely have to make it out of balsa wood just so Rose can pick it up.
But if they made her use a katana or something more physically appropriate, she wouldn’t really be channelling Red Sonja would she?
I back up those posts above with this…
“Luckily G4 put up the interview they aired of Miss Rose from Comic-Con, in it she states that Red Sonja will begin filming at the end of September and next week she begins training about 4-5 hours a day. She will be learning sword fighting, trick horse riding, free running, acrobatics and more.”
i cant wait to see the film,
despite how small she is etc. i think she will fit the role.
:)
Shit, sorry Doug. I misread your post and thought you said she did NOT mention anything about training. Either way, my post reinforces your post :)
@Doug
I saw an interview on G4 where Rose said she would be training for 5 hours a day in sword fighting, acrobatics, and other stuff starting next week
30 mills is very little for a film like this so I’m sure he’s going to get some of it back. If he can market the film to both women and men he can expect some nice profits.
@ Gutpunch – in the panel the other day she did mention that a rigorous training schedule was involved.
A movie that cost 30m to make has a better chance of making a profit than spending 150mil hoping its a blockbuster.
30mil is respectable. Even if it does moderately well, it will make money. They are not expecting to break the bank on this (its likely going to be rated R which limits its demographic) but it has potential to do ok.
Does anyone really believe that this film will be of high interest.outside of the fanboy crowd. Rodriquez is talented and Rose is hot, but if Im a studio Im not shelling out anymore than 30 mil to back this project.
But isn’t that how she’s always been depicted? As a hot chick with a sword who kicks ass. I’ve never seen images of her as some muscle bound warrior who towers over men.
Plus we don’t know how if Rose will bulk up for the film or not
Gutpunch, the suspension of disbelief (not the suspension of belief as wrongly stated by some) can allow for the acceptance of magic, and mysticism is fine, but it shatters that suspension when you want to ground someone as a grand warrior and cheapen it saying the 80lb girl beat the barbarian army.
The only posts I deleted of his were those that violated the commenting rules. It is ok to be wrong. But you cannot say my OPINION is wrong. I can’t be emotionally committed to a waif with a sword she rightly shouldn’t be able to lift being a convincing warrior.
She’s still great for the pinups. But that’s as far as her value goes for me. I also agree with Parker above. No matter how much training you say she has, a wee thing like her has no menacing presence, even with her sword.
Rodney, in a world where people can transform in to giant snakes at will I think I will have no problem believing that a model like chick can wield a sword no matter how big it is.
And do you really think that Rose is that weak that she can’t wield that sword in the poster? It’s tiny!
And deleting Miles’s posts is weak. Be a man dude don’t delete his posts just because you don’t have an answer for them. It’s OK being wrong once in a while.
I like my woman attractive, so I dont want a giant chyna like man-cow playing in a lead female role just so I can get over the fact that she is weilding a heavy accessory. Screw that, make the lead more attractive and I will get over the fact that in reality to use a weapon like that efficiently she would have to be really be huge and mannish.
And Trinity could not fly or dodge bullets in the matrix—wow now I feel like giant nerd
And you could train any girl that weighed 80 pounds in every style of martial arts and I will still kick the everlovin shit out of her. — I am an 800 pound sexist
Not to start an argument, but here’s the facts I hang my guess on, Rodney:
— Rodriguez’s filmography in this decade (directing and producing, although he mostly produces his own films)
— The posters they’ve released this week
— The current climate of filmmaking in this genre, and specifically the audience this film be targeting
Plus, I didn’t say I KNOW this will suck, just that it looks headed in that direction. But my prediction (based on the direction of the poster and the above factors) is no more or less valid than your assertion that she’s too much of a waif to wield a sword convincingly (which, come to think of it, could be another factor lending credence to this project angling for a stylized CGI slo-mo action style, which by it’s very nature, isn’t concerned with obeying the laws of physics and reality – in short, a realm in which it doesn’t matter that Rose MacGowan could never swing a sword, just that she look cool doing it.
Lastly, is it sexist for so many to be outraged that MacGowan is too slight for primitive combat? Is she less of a “man’s woman” than Brigitte Neilsen – sure. But I don’t recall a similar outcry when an untrained 13 year old boy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe swung a sword in battle against 700lb minotaurs.
If you are going to make comparisons Gut, you have to compare apples to apples.
In the Matrix they can control reality. Change the rules.
Last I checked Red Sonja did not posses supernatural strength or the ability to ignore the laws of physics.
That first poster is awkwardly disturbing
This one looks like it’s going to be every bit as lame as the last one back in the 80’s. Just with better special effects.
Red Sonja is a statuesque woman who is well muscled. Not some 5 foot twig/shrimp. Think of the woman who played Conan’s love interest in the first Conan the Barbarian movie. She looked like a beautiful barbarian woman who could also take care of business.
“And Moss only kicked ass in the Matrix because she lived in a world where she could dodge bullets and FLY.”
And Red Sonja doesn’t live in a fantasy world?
Hey Miles,
In “Wanted” Jolie carried a light little gun, and the only person she “kicked ass” with was the timid McAvoy who was just eating it.
Sorry, but to buy Rose as a barbarian queen wielding a 20 pound sword just doesn’t fly. At least Bridgett Nielson physically looked the part.
@Bill, an educated guess is based on facts. You know no more about this project than I do, so there are no facts.
What you have is a presumption. You assume they will McG this film, but you don’t know that anymore than I do.
It might be amazing. It might not. We have only seen a poster and a few test shots so far. They can change so much before the final product is out.
Erick it was presumed that she wouldnt be working with Rodriguez since they broke up, but the announcement with Rose present in person confirming it, and her in the posters….seems pretty clear she is still involved.
Keep in mind Rodriguez isnt directing this, but it isn’t like they hate each other either. No news of a messy breakup has come around. They appear to be quite civil about it all.
Jolie was PUNCHING people and shooting them with guns. My 11 year old could punch you in the nose and I guarantee you get a black eye. Take a self defense course sometime. They teach 80lb girls to incapacitate men all the time.
And Moss only kicked ass in the Matrix because she lived in a world where she could dodge bullets and FLY.
Sorry Miles your “roll” you think you are on is based entirely in your own mind.
I am a 200lb full grown man and I have a replica sword that weighs about 10-15 lbs. I cant weild it with any sort of grace and I know I can move around 5 times the weight that this waif can.
I can suspend disbelief for a fantasy flick, but in no world am I every going to find a 90lb candy doll with a sword a threat.
And Red Sonja is not on Earth. Many maps were published as to the “World of Conan” which are not anything like earth.
I agree with Miles…
Isn’t the whole point of movies to be a form of entertainment a suspension of belief…
soooo they didn’t break up? i don’t get it. wasnt’ there news she was out… and about the size thing.. i think what she lacks is size.. she’ll make up in cheezy attitude in the movie.. you know how Mcgowan has that little tough girl smart ass sound to her?
i am 99% certain it is on earth, just in an alternate timeline.
Let’s also not forget that this doesn’t even take place on “earth”.
I’d rather see Rose in this rather than Chyna or somebody like that.
Carrie Ann Moss kicked all sorts of ass in the Matrix films and she’s a twig.
Suspension of disbelieve is a wonderful thing sometimes.
@John
I don’t get that attitude.
Let’s use Wanted as an example.
So, there is Jolie…easily smaller/more of a waif then Rose appears to be in these previews. BUT, you guys seemed to have bought her hook line and sinker. Now, I know you are thinking ‘she used guns!’ BUT there were also scenes where she kicked ass with her bare hands.
Now, I would like you to look deep inside your soul and ask yourself if you really think that Angelina Jolie could kick anyone’s ass with her bare hands. My opinion is that this is a big no.
It is my opinion that you guys have kind of convinced yourselves that Rose is a bad choice based on some ridiculous reasoning (doesn’t look tough enough). That is kind of what happens when friends discuss ideas that they share similar opinions on.
Let’s not also forget that you have gone on at great length about how the look of an actor does not matter as long as they embody the spirit of the role on screen.
IMO – Suspend a bit of belief. Anything set in the Conan universe requires that…I mean come on, at the time this is supposed to take place humans were still stillusing flint weapons, the bronze age was about seven thousand years off. So let’s not get bogged down in ‘SHE COULDN’T LIFT THE SWORD!’ when swords did not even fucking exist in the real world during this time frame.
To each his own…but I think that the company line in this case is not exactly consistent or logical.
this will suck
Casting Rose to play Sonja makes about as much sense as casting Woody Allen to play Conan
I think rose gets hotter with age…. wasn’t it true though that she was not going to play Red Sonja because her and robert broke up?
Rodney — call it an educated guess. The primary point of the poster seems to be to unveil the style of the planned film, the overall take on the material, which doesn’t look anything like realism.
If they end up filming this movie at real locations, with real stuntmen in wireless choreographed fight scenes and not a single frame is in bullet time, then I guess I’ll feel presumptive and silly.
Anyone want to lay odds on that happening?
And anyway, Poledouris is dead.
Her face looks like a chick that’s been through too many face lifts in that licking poster. Looks awkward.
The other one looks fine.
Rose has a natural bad assness about her so I’m not worried about her look cool with a sword, no matter how big it is. Comics, cartoons and computer games get away with petite women brandishing swords half their size so this shouldn’t be too much problem buying in a live action film.
hmmmmm….. looks like the chick off Heavenly Sword.
Bill, you know that this is just a sneak peek. Likely all produced in one afternoon with Rose in the hair after a short makeup session.
Of course its green screened and photoshopped. The movie hasn’t even begun filming yet.
I am skeptical about this sexy waif being a convincing warrior woman, but since that have been no filming locations announced, and no composer named for the score, I don’t know how you can presume what they are going to do with it.
Looks like major “eh” to me. More stylized slo-mo digital action shot unconvincingly on greenscreen.
I can see the marketing pitch now — it’s 300 meets Joan Jett, but with better cleavage.
Now if they hauled MacGowan’s ass over to some wasteland in northern Italy to shoot this thing and had real stunts and a score by Basil Poledouris….well, maybe then I’d be interested.
oh wait.
luckily the film makers are going for realism.
How about you do some reasearch about the ACTUAL swords of that time not these “battle ready” replicas made from modern steel alloys.
They can claim “they are real swords” all they want. No sword measuring over 3 feet was under 3 lbs in that time.
sword weighing as much as she does?
i looked up swords like that on cold steel (they make real swords, not replicas…battle ready and all that jazz).
their equivalent sword weighs about 2 and a half pounds.
in order to retain her bombshell status i am willing to bet rose spends one hell of a lot more time at the gym then you do, and you don’t think she could lift a two and a half pound sword?
foolishness, the thing isn’t a fucking claymore. can your wife lift two and a half pounds with one hand? i sure as hell hope so.
(lol)
Can you spell box office bomb?
Its stupid to assume that all women are weak. but Rose is barely over 100lbs. Just doesn’t seem the natural physique that a warrior barbarian woman would have naturally evolved into.
Yes, all women are weak..