Red Sonja (1985)

They had Red Sonja stories in the original Savage Sword of Conan run. They were mostly standalone if I recall correctly but Conan may have featured in one or two. I've never seen one where Kull and Conan were in the same story.
 
Vince W said:
They had Red Sonja stories in the original Savage Sword of Conan run. They were mostly standalone if I recall correctly but Conan may have featured in one or two. I've never seen one where Kull and Conan were in the same story.
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There is comic in which Conan and Kull do appear together, ive seen the cover with them both on it.
 
Yeah the Red Sonja we see in teh film is loosely based on teh comic version which is basically a female Conan using another characters name (in fact isn't the original Sonja spelt differently?). The comic series she started in was with Conan and then she went on to have her own series of comics. Currently Dynamite has her licence whilst Marvel has Conan (they got it back last Christmas from Dark Horse). So as of late she's been her own thing save for the odd cross-over series. However the more she sticks with Dynamite the more she moves away from being an adventuring hero in an old age and the more they are moving her closer to a super-hero comic format and approach.

I mean I can't blame them, adventuring is really at a low right now. We don't get films, books nor many comics about adventurers. WE get some DnD and Pathfinder; but by and large the big money is all in comic-heroes right now
 
Overread said:
Yeah the Red Sonja we see in teh film is loosely based on teh comic version which is basically a female Conan using another characters name (in fact isn't the original Sonja spelt differently?). The comic series she started in was with Conan and then she went on to have her own series of comics. Currently Dynamite has her licence whilst Marvel has Conan (they got it back last Christmas from Dark Horse). So as of late she's been her own thing save for the odd cross-over series. However the more she sticks with Dynamite the more she moves away from being an adventuring hero in an old age and the more they are moving her closer to a super-hero comic format and approach.

I mean I can't blame them, adventuring is really at a low right now. We don't get films, books nor many comics about adventurers. WE get some DnD and Pathfinder; but by and large the big money is all in comic-heroes right now
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Neither the Sonja in movie or in the comic is anything like Howards actual Red Sonja character. His chapter lived into Middle Ages not Hyborin era.
 
I vaguely remember a series Of Red Sonja Novels . I think they were write by David Smith. :unsure:
 
I would like to see then do another Red Sonja film . Directed and produced by Peter Jackson or John McTiernan perhaps?
 
The only downside is that Sonja is of the "chainmail bikini armour" generation of fantasy. In a way right now that whole era is not so much under threat just not as "politically correct" even though she's often shown teamed up with a mound of insane workout muscle wearing an animal loincloth and carrying a sword.

Of course a slightly more serious take on her wouldn't be bad, but you'd need a dark good actress to really carry the role and put power into the character. Whilst Hollywood has a good few "gruff and rough" men they don't seem to have as many women. Or they rarely present them as such, so they come off very soft around the edges. It's little things like how their face often looks very soft, their hands too. Sonja is often described as quite brutish in many ways. Whilst she always had an "idealistic" beauty to her, she was also not one to shy from headbutting an enemy; drinking herself into a stupor or getting scarred up in swordfights (even though she won).
 
Nope never heard of him nor his works, though a quick googling looks interesting - seems very much of the era in fantasy and RPG adventuring style stories.
 
Overread said:
Nope never heard of him nor his works, though a quick googling looks interesting - seems very much of the era in fantasy and RPG adventuring style stories.
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He was prolific .

He wrote Conan novels and an entire series based of Robert E. Howards character Cormac Art which , I think you might like :)
 
Basically they created a female Conan with Red Sonja, but to get the name and make it their own they took one of his other names Sonya and adjusted the spelling a little. I think its part and parcel of how Conan shifted from the short stories into becoming his own thing in the Comicbooks.
 
I would very much like to see them do a New Red Sonja film.:)

It's aggravating that nobody can get it done. :mad:
 
I think if Marvel got Sonja there'd be a chance, but with the rights held by Dynamite I think they've just not got enough clout to push through a project like that.

Of course the other issue is that adventuring fantasy isn't doing the rounds at present; its all superhero films.
 
Overread said:
I think if Marvel got Sonja there'd be a chance, but with the rights held by Dynamite I think they've just not got enough clout to push through a project like that.

Of course the other issue is that adventuring fantasy isn't doing the rounds at present; its all superhero films.
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I think we could all us a good sword and sorcery adventure film about now. Conan , Red Sonja , King Kull
Or how about a Kane the Mystic Swordsman film? The book I would sees that I would lot see become a film Bloodstone. The choices Id want to direct and produce this film Guillermo Del Toro or Alex Proyas, :cool:
 
Im ratter surprise that no one has gone the television series route with Red Sonja.:unsure: It could be a fun series for television. Id watch it.:cool:
 
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