Rose McGowan is Red Sonja

Posted on June 27, 2008

We haven't heard much about the Barbarella remake lately, and perhaps this is why: Rose McGowas is set to star in a new film about the comic book character Red Sonja; the film will be directed by Rose's fiance, Robert Rodriguez.

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."

Douglas Aarniokoski will direct the story, which will be based on the comic books and the pulp fiction novelist Robert E. Howard, the man who crated Red Sonja and Conan the Barbarian. Red Sonja? So does that mean Barbarella is lost in space? We're thinking yes.

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