Red Sonja film in post-production, release date is unknown
Aug 16, 2021 7:57:50 GMT -5
Post by hyrkanian on Aug 16, 2021 7:57:50 GMT -5
'Sacha Baron Cohen to play a co-leading role of Kulan Gath'..........Sacha from Borat fame. I mean WTF !?!
Black actress as Red Sonja, Borat as Kulan Gath, so I hope we will see Conan O' Brien in the cameo role of Conan.
People involved in this project will inflict more wounds and damage on Red Sonja than her biggest and fiercest enemies have managed to do.
1) First, they hired Jill/Joy Solloway, a director with 0 experience in making action films and absolute ignorance about Red Sonja:
“I can really have so much fun with Red Sonja. I see her a little bit more like the first kind of bad girl superhero. Sort of like the Batman of The Dark Knight or Deadpool, you know?”
“There could not be a greater moment in our world for Red Sonja’s ways of wielding power and her connection with nature and our planet.”
Soloway just does not understand the character, Sonja is no f----n superhero, Greenpeace activist, neither she is a feminist advocate.
2) Then they hired a screenwriter Tasha Huo who has 0 written movies and is equally ignorant about Red Sonja character. After listening to the podcast in which Huo explained what her Red Sonja will be like, I am completely convinced that the upcoming movie will be a complete disaster. When asked by the host, writer and actor Joshua Hallman - Who the f-k is Red Sonja?, she answered:
“Red Sonja is a barbarian, a female version of Conan, a superhero.”
Then she said that “Gail Simone's Red Sonja is fantastic because she is very feminist, self-confident and because it is obvious that the woman is her author”.
In the end, she presented her vision of the visual representation of Sonja and the world in which she lives:
“ Sonja is famous for her chain mail bikini, but my Sonja will not look oversexualized like that.”
“Sonja lives in Hyrkania. Unlike the real world in which Lara Croft lives, Hyrkania is an imaginary world and I can present it as I wish.“
I am afraid that political views of the director and screenwriter were the main recommendations that got them a job on this movie.
3) Then they hired Gail Simone, who made a parody of the original character of Red Sonja in her comics, as a consultant on the script.
4) Another problem with the upcoming movie is: it’s not going to be R rated and it's going to be family friendly. Producers Campbell and Grobman said in a interview: - Red Sonja will be PG 13. Its going to be for everyone. She is female - empowerment character, and you want every little girl to want to be Red Sonja.
5) The worst decision of all-They cast black/POC actress to play Red Sonja. The problem with this casting choice is not just skin and hair color, height or figure of the actress (Hannah is small and has no curves), but also her facial features and skin of black/mixed-race woman.
Red Sonja is white, naturally red haired Caucasian woman.
She was created that way by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith, and she was like that last 50 years in comic books, illustrations, novels and even in the shape of statues and action figures. It’s her iconic look - integral and crucial part of her character as much as her personality and her chain mail bikini.
So it wouldn’t matter even if they chose Chinese, or Eskimo or Arabian woman instead of black- all of them would be wrong for this role.
It is irrelevant whether Hannah is a good actress, because she does not look like Red Sonja at all. She doesn’t have face not body to play Sonja.
I mean, Red Sonja is practically a goddess of war - gorgeous and intimidated, she is a woman that thousands of best warriors of the Hyborian world desire, admire, fear and would follow her in battles to death, a woman for whom the most powerful kings would renounce their kingdoms just for one night in a bed with her.
And then look at this tiny creature that is supposed to represent the hottest and most powerful female warrior in the world of fantasy.
Some Hannah’s fans created fan posters with her in Sonja’s outfit-in chain mail bikini and with red hair, but they only caused her harm because she looks ridiculous as Sonja.
Nothing against Hannah but she is soooo wrong for this role. I mean, I like Mads Mikkelsen, but I don't want to see him as Black Panther.
6) They will cast Jaimie Alexander as Sonja’s antagonist (Dark Annisia).
Its another wrong decision from the creative team of the movie - to choose a opponent/villain who has stronger and more beautiful appearance than the main heroine of the film and who looks more like Red Sonja than the lead actress.
Anyway, I am expecting some sword and sorcery parody in Uwe Boll style.