A buxom, semi clad, sword wielding, warrior woman - a hard sell!?!?
Red Sonja on film
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Posted 10 July 2008 - 11:43 AM
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Posted 10 July 2008 - 11:52 AM
If they want it to make serious money, yes!
If it's not marketing right, it could fall flat on it's arse and McGowan isn't a draw.
If it's not marketing right, it could fall flat on it's arse and McGowan isn't a draw.
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Posted 10 July 2008 - 09:10 PM
I mean, she's a comic book character. You know how difficult it is to sell those properties nowadays . . .
"It is more than a mortal sea. Your hands are red with blood and you follow a red sea-path, yet the fault is not wholly with you. Almighty God, when will the reign of blood cease?"
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
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Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 01:53 PM
I mean, she's a comic book character. You know how difficult it is to sell those properties nowadays . . .
She's a comic book character that wears next to nothing, manages to look stupidly hot no matter the conditions, has serious cans despite her fighting skills, has no visable scars depsite the abount of battles she's been in.... need I go on!!
This one will have to be in a praticular style to work.
Anyways:
Here's something I knocked up after hearing the announcement.
This is not what I would do for the main poster but given as this thing ain't even started production, I think this makes for a good first round, hype building type poster.
I hope you guys like it!
Rose McGowan Red Sonja prelim movie poster.
Edited by Pig Boy, 11 July 2008 - 01:54 PM.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 04:56 PM
Nice. I see you resist the temptation of a full-figure shot. A close-up is actually a lot more enticing.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 05:11 PM
Thanks!
I got a whole bunch of great ideas but you gotta work with whatever is already out there which ain't a lot.
Plus, we have no idea what she's gonna wear so it's best play it safe!
I'd like to a totally different one for SDCC but I dunno if I will have the time.
I got a whole bunch of great ideas but you gotta work with whatever is already out there which ain't a lot.
Plus, we have no idea what she's gonna wear so it's best play it safe!
I'd like to a totally different one for SDCC but I dunno if I will have the time.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 06:51 PM
Here's something I knocked up after hearing the announcement.
This is not what I would do for the main poster but given as this thing ain't even started production, I think this makes for a good first round, hype building type poster.
I hope you guys like it!
Rose McGowan Red Sonja prelim movie poster.
Wow, I'm really impressed with your work. When I first saw it, I thought it was the real thing!
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--Robert E. Howard to Harold Preece, ca. June 1928--
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 07:24 PM
Honestly , am I the only guy on these boards who finds Rose 'Pixie-Nose' Mcgowan completely unnattractive in an absolutely & thoroughly negligeable uninterested way ? She has a positively 'annoying 12-year-old little cousin in goth drag' 
quality that makes you want to tell her parents to keep her home & never let her see the light of day until she finally learns how to read & stops getting kicked off the short-bus every week for excessive drooling & loud mouth-breathing .
- I should quit joking , or I might give the impression that I don't absolutely think the world of her & her unnatractive , unintelligent , untalented adorable self & those bulgy , vacant , bee-sting Bette Davis hyper-thyroidism eyes of hers .
quality that makes you want to tell her parents to keep her home & never let her see the light of day until she finally learns how to read & stops getting kicked off the short-bus every week for excessive drooling & loud mouth-breathing . - I should quit joking , or I might give the impression that I don't absolutely think the world of her & her unnatractive , unintelligent , untalented adorable self & those bulgy , vacant , bee-sting Bette Davis hyper-thyroidism eyes of hers .
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 08:08 PM
You could bounce a tennis ball down Melrose or Santa Monica Blvd. and it would touch at least two dozen redheads two dozen times hotter than Rose McGowan.
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Is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allen Poe
It's the olden lure, it's the golden lure, it's the lure of the timeless things. - Robert Service
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. - Thomas Mann
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. - Norman Maclean
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 08:10 PM
Honestly , am I the only guy on these boards who finds Rose 'Pixie-Nose' Mcgowan completely unnattractive in an absolutely & thoroughly negligeable uninterested way ? She has a positively 'annoying 12-year-old little cousin in goth drag'
- I should quit joking , or I might give the impression that I don't absolutely think the world of her & her unnatractive , unintelligent , untalented adorable self & those bulgy , vacant , bee-sting Bette Davis hyper-thyroidism eyes of hers .
Ah, come on, don't be so coy. Why don't you tell us what you REALLY think?
Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
--Robert E. Howard to Harold Preece, ca. June 1928--
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 08:15 PM
As I said in the other thread, she's not my first choice (Evangeline Lilly) but I think it could turn out ok.
I really liked Planet Terror.
I really liked Planet Terror.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 08:28 PM
It could have been worse. They could have picked Lindsey Lohan.
Rose wasn't my first choice, either. I thought Ally Larter (Heroes) would have been a good choice for the role.
Rose wasn't my first choice, either. I thought Ally Larter (Heroes) would have been a good choice for the role.
Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
--Robert E. Howard to Harold Preece, ca. June 1928--
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 08:32 PM
Wow, I'm really impressed with your work. When I first saw it, I thought it was the real thing!
A fellow could spread that around the internet and no one would be the wiser...
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 09:33 PM
It was definitely well done.
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allen Poe
It's the olden lure, it's the golden lure, it's the lure of the timeless things. - Robert Service
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. - Thomas Mann
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. - Norman Maclean
Is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allen Poe
It's the olden lure, it's the golden lure, it's the lure of the timeless things. - Robert Service
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. - Thomas Mann
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. - Norman Maclean
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 10:02 PM
hahahahahAh, come on, don't be so coy. Why don't you tell us what you REALLY think?
Having a little circumlocutionalistical fun . I don't think she's offensively ugly at all , but she is def. just everyday average plain-Jane I. M. Op. & I def. don't think she's one of the 'great' actresses of our day .
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 10:45 PM
hahahahahAh, come on, don't be so coy. Why don't you tell us what you REALLY think?
& I def. don't think she's one of the 'great' actresses of our day .
Her mannerisms are not very inspiring either. She was the co-host on TCM's Essentials and I just didn't get it. She has no particular quality to her comments. She has a hard time elaborating on any of the points brought forth, rather, she would make a sweeping comment that was more like a generalization, or just repeating what others said even better over the years regarding the films and the directors, actors, etc, as opposed to something either insightful or even eloquent. Then there's that flat almost, nasal monotone voice, it has no distinct characteristic other than being forgettable. I don't hate the woman, I guess she's fine as a B-girl persona, but she's no modern reflection of the effect her film heroes have had on her. I guess she's attractive enough for this version of Sonja, and seeing as they'd have to have a time machine casting a young Sophia Loren in the role for me to even be interested enough to rent it, well, I can't say I'm terribly concerned one way of the other. Heck, they could have Rosie O'Donnell in the role for all I care.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 11:24 PM
Maybe they should have a red-headed baby play Red Sonja since they are rebooting her as an infant in the comic.
Red Headed Baby (maybe REH watched this?)
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 11:44 PM
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a McGowan fan. I loved her performance in "Jawbreaker" and "The Doom Generation" (btw, rent the unrated version if you're curious to what she looks like naked). I never watched a single episode of "Charmed", but I loved her in "Grindhouse". To me, McGowan with Tarantino /Rodriguez seemed like a match made in heaven; a classic b-movie actress in an homage to b-movies. No, she'll probably never win an Oscar, but she won't give a totally wooden performance like say, Bridgett Neilson, either.
Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 11:58 PM
I vote Bryce Dallas Howard.
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Posted 12 July 2008 - 02:52 AM
Here's something I knocked up after hearing the announcement.
This is not what I would do for the main poster but given as this thing ain't even started production, I think this makes for a good first round, hype building type poster.
I hope you guys like it!
Rose McGowan Red Sonja prelim movie poster.
I'd like if it was made a movie with Red Sonya of Rogatino being reincarnation of a post-Hyborian Red Sonja who had Vanir and Hyperborean blood - a red-haired Hyrkanian, as shown in the 1970/80's comics, has nothing to do with REH!
