Stuck wandering the wilds of development hell for years, Conan-adjacent warrior Red Sonja is still trying to make her way to screens. Thor and X-Men: First Class co-writer Ashley Edward Miller is the latest person hired to try and crack a script.
Thanks to a push from the success of Wonder Woman, the Sonja film remains on the fast-track, though it hasn't seemed as fast as some of the other characters.
Sonja is sort of a Robert E. Howard creation like Conan The Barbarian, but actually has more to do with Roy Thomas' Conan comics for Marvel. Howard's Red Sonya of Rogatino doesn't inhabit the same world or time period as Conan and doesn't wear a chain-mail bikini; it was Thomas that revamped her as the amazon sword-maiden we now recognise. She was previously embodied onscreen by Brigitte Nielsen in 1985, with Arnold Schwarzenegger also on-hand as the all-but Conan Prince Kalidor.
"It’s an exciting opportunity to faithfully adapt the amazing Hyborean world Robert E. Howard created, and inject it with Sonja’s intelligence, ferocity, and fearless humanity," Miller tells Deadline. "I want people to love Sonja the way I love her, and walk out of the theater understanding why she’s so popular and enduring. Sonja is an icon." He's more recently worked on a script for the reboot of Big Trouble In Little China, and is helping with the second season of Amazon's series Lore, based on the podcast.
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