Proving once again the Hollywood ran out of original ideas a long time ago, USA Today is reporting that Robert Rodriguez will be producing a new Red Sonja movie. Playing the title role will be none other then 34-year old Rose McGowan, star of Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. She’s also the woman Rodriguez left his wife and five children for.
Very classy.
Directing the movie will be longtime Rodriguez associate Douglas Aarniokoski. I wonder if Rodriguez has any worries that Rose McGowan might leave him for Aarniokoski. She seems to have a thing for directors. Maybe she only screws the married directors.
USA Today reports that the movie will be taking it’s cues from both the comic books and the original works of novelist Robert E. Howard, the creator of the original Sonja. Both McGowan and Rodriguez claim to have not seen the 1985 version of Red Sonja staring Brigitte Nielsen.
