Yesterday it was looking like the long gestating Red Sonja project was dead and buried following the news that potential director Robert Rodriguez had backed out. Rodriguez was the head cheerleader for the project, and wanted specifically to have Rose McGowan playing the female sword-swinger. Now thanks to the wonders that are Twitter, we have McGowan's take on the subject from her fingertips to the keyboard...
To clarify press reports: Red Sonja is delayed. I pulled out of doing it in '09. Not permanently.Hopefully will follow Conan.
So the project isn't dead, and she still seems to be attatched to the film in some way. But it doesn't say whether or not Rodriguez will be behind the camera, which is the crucial point for me. This becomes a much less interesting project without his involvement. But since this is his baby, and it looks like McGowan is back on board, I have little doubt that Rodriguez will eventually get around to it. The problem is that he's got a ton of projects on the backburner, including Thulsa Doom and Machete. So it's no telling when he'll ever get around to Sonja, which is a shame because all the press build up at last year's Comic-Con looked really strong.
