Rose McGowan says she can't wait to wear the chain mail bikini of Red Sonja, the barbarian queen. Why? "The suffragettes would have loved her. She would only be with a man if he had bested her with the sword first. That was a pretty feminist statement ... well, as far as comic books go back then."

McGowan said she had a "very depressing year" seeking a challenging, nuanced role in Hollywood when most movies present women "not even as straight man, they're the straight man to the straight man." When a script came her way reviving the Marvel Comics character who first appeared in "Conan the Barbarian" under writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith (drawing, of course, on the work of pulp icon Robert E. Howard) she was intrigued. She showed it to her boyfriend, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, and asked if he had ever heard of the character.

And, of course, Rodriguez turned out to be a rabid fan of the Marvel Conan comics and Sonja as well. "I learned to draw by tracing the art in 'Savage Sword of Conan,' John Buscema and all of that. They led back to the books by Howard and loved him, partly because he was the weird guy from Texas like me." The two of them told me all of this on Thursday as they relaxed in a (relatively) quiet corner of Comic-Con after their panel on "Red Sonja." The wide-eyed pair had just bumped into Stan Lee (McGowan: "Wow, he is a salesman") and seemed charmed and a bit overwhelmed by the whole day. "I'm a novice but I love it," McGowan said as Rodriguez nodded.

Red Sonja hit the screen back in 1985 when it was the towering Brigitte Nielsen from Denmark swinging the sword with a certain California governor along for the fun. This new "Red Sonja" sounds as if will have some of the hyper-reality of films like "300" and Rodriguez's own "Sin City." The movie isn't until 2010 but Rodriguez said they would be back next year with a full-on presentation. The curvy McGowan said the costume will be a big hit. "It's, uh, very visually impactful. Sonja lived in a time when men, if they saw a woman with a sword, wouldn't think twice about killing her. She needs any edge or distraction she can get. The costume gives her that."

One last thing: Will the name "Conan" be mentioned in this film? "I can't tell you that," Rodriguez said. "The reason i can't tell you is I don't know yet."

I love Rose and I love the idea of this film coming out. I'll even go to the theatre for it.

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But I guess this means Barbarella has been scrapped. I thought she had her spaceship and everything?

im not sure how i feel about robert rodriguez basically only doing stuff to make rose work, but i actually know i'll be a total nerd for this movie cause i eventually always end up loving robert's works (well, let's not talk about spy kids, cause thats another story....)

Same.
Planet Terror was fucking FUN! i bet this'll be too.

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i wish they would make another Conan. i loved the movie Conan the Barbarian when i was little.

i bet this is going to be great. Rose, Robert, and Red Sonja. I can't wait. I remember seeing this movie with my parents when i was very young. I remember liking it. I will have to see if I can find the original.

from a graphic design/photography perspective, those posters look EPIC, and Rose McGowan is great but I'm sure the movie will just be more egomaniac gratuitious unnecessary violence from this man and it's there so that he can get hard ons on the editing room.

But I guess stylistically it'll be great.

Apprently she's still doing both, according to her wikipedia page.

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I was all about Conan the Destroyer. Grace Jones!

I have Red Sonja on DVD somewhere. I ought to watch it again, for research. In terms of 80s power couples, I think a tag team jelly wrestle between Nielsen/Stallone and Jones/Lundgren would be hot.

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i think i will see this movie because it has my name in it. hahaha

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BTW, I'm immediately buying copies of these posters. They are wicked ultra cool.

I wish I had a chainmail swimsuit.

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I will so watch this.

He does seem completley and utterly into her.

Because Grindhouse was her calling.

With these kind of movies, she wants to be this cult B-movie inspired actress. Grindhouse, Barbarella, Red Sonja, Women In Chains. And I fucking love it.

I say GO for it. She's the most interesting actress to me right now.

I want to see her as Varla in Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Not Britney.

And BTW. Rose said Barbarella had a $70 million dollar budget, everything was prepared but its been put on the backburner. Robert is working on the Sin City sequels so Barbarella is after.

I want to see some Barbarella pictures.

i'd honestly prefer him working on sin city rather than barbarella. i mean, i guess it could be AMAZING, but i seriously hope this remake trend will come to an end, as soon as possible:|

you do realize that Tarantino and Rodriguez can get millions of dollars to make their movies and they have big shot studios behind their backs so their movies are not really B movies in the literal sense of the word.

I guess Rose McGowan is on her way to becoming a POSER B movie queen, wich is fine, I also say go for it because her career has been lacklustre in every other way.

That's why I said it was B-movie inspired.

It's about being influenced/inspired. Calling it a Poser B-movie is kind of odd simply because B-movies haven't really exsisted since the 80's. Modern b-movies aren't campy cheap and bad, they're just cheap and bad. There's no camp.

original B movies were not cheap DELIBERATELY like Rodriguez's films(wich are NOT cheap, they just look cheap).

They were cheap because they literally had no money to make them and couldn't afford good crew and that is why they turned out campy and bad. And they didn't know they were a genre, they just WERE.

Rodriguez sits down in a room and tries to mechanically create a B movie and what comes out is contrived and it's just ego, I don't know how can people like them. It's not B movies. He is inspired by them but they are not B movies, they are not even modern B movies.

True.
And who could forget such classics