Looks like neo Barbarella is off. That's Rose McGowan in the upcoming Robert Rodriguez produced Red Sonja. The film is to be directed by one Douglas Aarniokoski, previous responsible for Highlander: Endgame and reams of second-unit direction on Miramax genre pieces. Based on a Marvel Comics' character created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith - itself modelled on a minor character from Robert E Howard's Conan books - Red Sonja is a lithe female barbarian clad in absurd swim-suit armour.
Sonja was the subject of a quite awful 1985 film starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger, although scanning message boards following the announcement of the above re-jig, you'd think it was fucking Proust. Pages of whining and complaining that someone has dared to meddle with such an established piece of cinema. Bleh. Nostalgia eh? Just because you saw it when you were a child, and remember bits, doesn't automatically mean it's good.
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