Looks like we'll be getting that Red Sonja movie at some stage after all. The Robert E. Howard-created warrior (though it was actually Roy Thomas who revamped her for Marvel's Conan comics) was already the subject of a movie from director Richard Fleischer back in 1985 with Brigitte Nielsen in the title role, and since that there have been a couple of attempts at a reboot -- most notably Robert Rodriguez's version which would have starred his then girlfriend Rose McGowan, and very nearly got off the ground. Then back in 2011 Simon West actually signed on to helm a Red Sonja movie (possibly starring Amber Heard) which would have tied into Marcus Nispel's Conan The Barbarian remake, but obviously that wasn't to be either.
Now it seems with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to crush his enemies as Conan once again, Nu Image feel it's time to give Sonja another go too with Christopher Cosmos on script duty. The Former VP of production company BenderSpink doesn't actually have a completed film under his belt yet, but sold his post-apocalyptic thriller The Fall to QED films in 2012, and has both Scouts And Raiders and Langley High in development. Hopefully he'll be looking to Gail Simone's Dynamite comic series for inspiration.
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