The New Red Sonja Movie Is Finally Underway

The much-anticipated new live-motion adaption of Red Sonja, the chain-mail bikini-clad warrior of the sword-and-sorcery comics of the identical identify, has lastly started capturing. Matilda Lutz, recognized for her roles in Revenge and Medici, is enjoying the titular character. Although Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) was initially slated to play Sonja, she needed to again out resulting from scheduling conflicts.

Director M.J. Bassett, who helmed Rogue and Solomon Kane, along with quite a few tv reveals, mentioned in a press launch, “I’ve wanted to make a Red Sonja movie since I was a teenager—she has been a powerful presence for me and a character that I have always wanted to bring to the screen with my own voice and vision.”

Other foremost members of the forged embody Wallis Day (Sex/Life, Batwoman) as Annisia, and Robert Sheehan (The Umbrella Academy, Misfits) as Draygan. The script was written by Joey Soloway (Transparent) and Tasha Huo (Netflix’s Tomb Raider).

The artistic staff is being helmed by girls and non-binary individuals, one thing to notice contemplating that initially Bryan Singer was initially on the slate to direct. I’m hopeful that the staff of Bassett, Soloway, and Huo will have the ability to tackle this often-maligned character—beforehand seen on the massive display in 1985’s Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring bomb—and deliver her to life in a means that’s totally conscious of the the male-gazey/sexploitation pitfalls of superhero tales that comply with girls and search to undermine and even satirize them.

Red Sonja is at present in manufacturing in Europe, so a 2023 and even 2024 launch appears seemingly.

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