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ROSE MCGOWAN & ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TEAM UP FOR 'RED SONJA' REMAKE?
What the hell is goin' on now with these two? USA Today is now reporting that "Grindhouse: Planet Terror" director and star and real life couple, Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, are now interested in doing a remake of "Red Sonja," the poorly received 1985 fantasy film starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hey! What the hell happened to their remake of "Barbarella?" Here's the story.
And Robert Rodriguez has her.
The Grindhouse co-director will produce a new big-screen adventure featuring the flame-haired comic-book vixen. While Brigitte Nielsen wielded Sonja's sword in the poorly received 1985 version, Rodriguez's Planet Terror zombie slayer and real-life leading lady, Rose McGowan, will wiggle into the metal mesh bikini in the 2010 release.
"I was surprised when Rose brought me a script of Red Sonja that she liked," Rodriguez says from his home base of Austin, where he is shooting Shorts, a family film with James Spader and Jon Cryer. "I found it very entertaining. Sonja was strong, smart, cunning — just about everything she'd have to be to survive."
McGowan's initial impulse when offered the part? To laugh.
"When they first came to me with it, I thought it was funny," says the actress, 34. "I do have a body made for sitting on a veranda with mint juleps and a parasol. I don't know why I always have to save the planet."
Rodriguez considers her a perfect fit as the mighty, and mighty voluptuous, avenger. "Rose is a pistol. She's whip-smart, has attitude to burn, is sexy, extremely strong, yet has a vulnerable side that would surprise her closest friends. That description also fits Red Sonja."
Not that his star isn't committed to the whole barbarian babe concept, including the crimson locks. "I do have a very scrappy-do personality," says McGowan, who will undergo intense training before filming starts in October. "I lean toward physicality. The story has characters trashed by life who fight their way back. That is my theme."Unlike her one-legged Planet Terror heroine, she assures, "I need all my limbs for this."
McGowan and Rodriguez have not seen Nielsen in the original, and they have no plans to catch up. As the actress explains, "Why put that in my head?"
Instead, the origin story, to be directed by longtime Rodriguez associate Douglas Aarniokoski, will take its cues from the comic books as well as works by pulp novelist Robert E. Howard, father of the original Sonja (then spelled Sonya) and Conan the Barbarian (also undergoing a movie revival).
"Howard's goal was always, first and foremost, to spin a good yarn and to entertain," says Rodriguez, who is hoping his Red Sonja turns into a franchise. "That's our goal."
I wonder if Robert and Rose keep a fish bowl of remake ideas under their bed just in case they need to bust it out whenever one bad remake idea starring Rose falls through? Robert, stop wasting the studios money and make another f**king Sin City movie already dude and throw Rose in that for crying out loud. Stop thinking with the little head and start thinking with the big one.
Too bad I just can't see Rose McGowan pulling off this role. If you ask me I'd rather see actress Rachel Nichols in the role. Hell... she's already playing another famous fictional red head. Why not Red Sonja? But...what the hell do I know?
Source: USA Today
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Comment by jasoncrisp on June 27, 2008 at 11:56pm -
Calm down Chig.
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Comment by Chig Champa on June 27, 2008 at 10:07pm -
Isn't that bad at directing? Have you seen a Robert Rodriguez movie? He's a terrible director.
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Comment by Iffy on June 27, 2008 at 6:37pm -
Robert Rodriguez is slowly becoming the most hated director after Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, Brett Ratner, and Seltzer and Friedberg.
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Comment by Beautiful Loser on June 27, 2008 at 2:05pm -
He isn't that bad at directing actually , the problem comes up when he is writting a script.
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Comment by Chig Champa on June 27, 2008 at 1:36pm
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Why would I feel sorry for a guy that takes on too many projects at once and then delivers subpar material?
It's his own fault that he bites off more than he can chew and then does a piss-poor job with everything on his plate.
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Comment by jasoncrisp on June 27, 2008 at 1:05pm
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I'm starting to dislike this guy more and more every week.
I really don't want to see the next ten Rodriguez projects all starring Rose McGowan.
How do you spell that 'pussy-whipped' sound effect?
WHOOT-CHIII!
I think thats it...
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Comment by Beautiful Loser on June 27, 2008 at 12:48pm
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Don't be so hard on him.He has a remake of red sonja , a remake of Barbarella , a tv called women in chains and sin city 2 to make.Poor guy when is he gonna find time to make all this shit.
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Comment by Chig Champa on June 27, 2008 at 12:18pm
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I actually had to spray Windex on my eyes to make sure I was reading this shit correctly.
Red Sonja remake? Directed by Robert Rodriguez? Starring Rose McFuckingGowan?
Why don't they just go door to door with three hundred millions shoe-boxes full of dog shit?
It would be more well received than this garbage.
Remaking a twenty year old flop is just another way for Rodriguez to hide the fact that he's an inept director.
Didn't like the movie?! You weren't supposed to!! It was bad on purpose!! It was silly camp!! Ha ha ha!!!!! Way to miss Robby's brilliant joke!!
Fuck you Robert Rodriguez....
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Comment by Beautiful Loser on June 27, 2008 at 12:13pm
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The red sonja was pretty bad , how could they make it any worse?
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Comment by ThaShining on June 27, 2008 at 4:54am -
Like I posted earlier his ass should be working on Sin City 2. That dude is pussy whipped.
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