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In-story information. Notable aliases. Mary Jane Watson [1] [2] Red Sonja is a fictional sword and sorcery comic-book superheroine [3] created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially inspired by Robert E. Howard 's character Red Sonya of Rogatino .
Enslaved by an evil tyrant who wishes to destroy her people, barbarian huntress Red Sonja must unite a group of unlikely warriors to face off against Dragan The Magnificent and his deadly bride, Dark Annisia. Cast. Matilda Lutz as Red Sonja; Wallis Day as Annisia; Robert Sheehan as Dragan; Michael Bisping as Hawk; Martyn Ford as ...
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Sonja, a young, red-haired woman, is gang raped and left for dead by hundreds of soldiers of Queen Gedren, a despot who murdered Sonja's parents and her brother after Sonja had rejected the queen's sexual advances and scarred Gedren's face. Answering Sonja's cry for revenge, a nameless female spirit appears and gives her heightened sword-fighting s...
A film adaptation of Red Sonja was first announced in 1983 with Ralph Bakshi directing. Production was pushed back a year and Bakshi was replaced with Richard Fleischer, who also directed the previous Robert E. Howard adaptation featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan the Destroyer. In Conan the Barbarian, Sandahl Bergman played Valeria, a thief and ...
Critical response
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 21% based on 28 reviews, with the site's critical consensus stating, "Dull, poorly directed, and badly miscast, Red Sonja is an uninspired conclusion to Schwarzenegger's barbarian trilogy." On Metacriticthe film has a score of 35% based on reviews from 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Schwarzenegger commented, "It's the worst film I have ever made." He joked, "Now I tell m...
Accolades
The film was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards, Worst Actress, Worst New Star (Nielsen) and Worst Supporting Actress (Sandahl Bergman). Nielsen won in the Worst New Star category, shared for her performance in Rocky IV.
Comic books
Marvel Comics published a comic book adaptation of the film by writer Louise Simonson and artists Mary Wilshire and Vince Colletta in Marvel Super Special #38. The adaptation was also available as a two-issue limited series.
Reboot
A second Red Sonja film had been in development for several years. In 2008, Robert Rodriguez and his production company Troublemaker Studios were working on a version that would have starred Rose McGowan as the title character. By 2009 however, the Rodriguez project had been scrapped, and as of February 2010, rights holders Nu Image were moving forward with another projected new film, to be directed by Simon West. Producer Avi Lerner said he would like to see Amber Heard take the role of Sonj...
Red Sonja at IMDbRed Sonja at AllMovieRed Sonja at Box Office MojoRed Sonja: Directed by M.J. Bassett. With Rhona Mitra, Robert Sheehan, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Martyn Ford. Plot kept under wraps. An adaptation of the comic book, Red Sonja, a vengeful warrior known as a "She-Devil with a sword".
- M.J. Bassett
- Tasha Huo, Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- 3 min
Red Sonja was born a member of a group of red-haired, bronze-skinned people called the Favored, who were created by the red goddess Scathach. These people were granted supernatural strength and skill with weapons for the purpose of slaying the Drommach, flesh-eating man beasts that inhabit the caves of the Favored.
Mar 24, 2024 · By Shaun Corley. Published Mar 24, 2024. Follow. Link copied to clipboard. Summary. Throughout her history, Red Sonja has been a powerful feminist icon in the sword and sorcery genre. Red Sonja's iconic chainmail bikini was not part of her original costume design but eventually became her trademark.
Red Sonja is a fictional fantasy swordswoman and adventurer, based on the heroine created by Robert E. Howard and adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. Hailing from the Hyborian Age, Sonja was only seventeen when her family's home on the Hyrkanian steppes was attacked by bandits, leaving her the sole survivor.
