Jul 25 2008 'Red Sonja' Looks a Lot Like 'Brenda Starr: Barbarian'
From Comic Con, we get our first look at Red Sonja, and what it would look like if Dungeons & Dragons ever merged with Glamor Shots. One more under the cut.
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Jun 27 2008 Robert Rodriguez Producing 'Red Sonja', Guess Who's Playing Her!
Robert Rodriguez has announced plans to produce a Red Sonja film slated for 2010, and surprise, for once he isn't trying to inappropriately cast his girlfriend, Rose McGowan, in the lead role. No, I'm kidding; he's obviously inappropriately casting his girlfriend in the lead role. From USA Today:
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.
Jeez. She will be a horrible Red Sonja. How are they possibly going to rationalize this? With false modesty and claims of an inner commonality to the character? Yes.
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May 28 2008 Robert Rodriguez Can't Do Anything Without His GF
Did you know that Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan are, like, totally in love? Well, they are, and Rodriguez wants you to know that besides being the best girlfriend in the world, she's also a tremendous actress worthy of more screen time than just Charmed reruns. So in addition to casting her in Planet Terror and a planned remake of Barbarella, the cowboy-hatted director is apparently shopping around a violent women's prison TV drama starring, you guessed it, his obnoxious goth girlfriend:
Director Robert Rodriguez is shopping around "Women in Chains!" a violent drama set at a woman's prison starring his fiancee, Rose McGowan.The spec script, penned by Josh Miller and Mark Fortin, has been sent to a number of networks, including NBC and FX.
I'm beginning to think Rodriguez and Tim Burton have contest going to see who can make the largest film library that will incite weeping when watched in a few years, after the inevitable breakups. If so, they're both doing a tremendous job.
Oct 18 2007 Rodriguez Being Seriously Uncool About Barbarella Casting
Universal has supposedly dropped backing of Robert Rodriguez's Babarella remake after the director refused to cast anyone but girlfriend Rose McGowan in the lead. And I, for one, totally know where Universal is coming from.
Sometimes you gotta just be like, dude, you cannot bring your girlfriend this time. It's like this one time my bud J-Dog was coming to see Old School with me, and he totally showed up with his girlfriend, who was like this heinous bitch. I had to be like, no way, J-Dog, Old School is our movie, and I don't even mean in a gay way. It's just we seriously identified with the characters and jokes, and this was before the next Will Ferrell movie we identified with. I only bring that up because the point wasn't that she was such a bitch (which she was), it's just that you can't bring your girlfriend everywhere, bro. He was so P-whipped, which I told him right then through little mimed whip cracks. Whatever, man. Whatever.
Barbar-hella! Robert Rodriguez Is Fonda of Rose McGowan in Queen of the Galaxy Role, But Universal Winces (that's seriously the title) [NY Observer]
