POSTERS

awesome news, definitely looking forward to it, wish i was there to see all of them.

that poster on the right looks fucked - the shadows make her face look completely messed.

The 1st poster looks sweet, especially cropped for the banner. The one on the right, though, looks like yet another variation of the TrueJenny'sBloodyBodyMouth theme, now with more Swordy goodness. Ok, this one has eyes and cleavage, but it still reminds me...

From these posters, looks like they're sticking with the Sin City, 300, Spirit type visuals but I could be wrong. McGowan looks hot, but isn't she too small/fragile to play the part? I think someone more built like Jessica Biel or as #4 mentioned Rhona Mitra who looks more bass ass. Still this looks good so far.

Both posters are artistically sexy! Rose McGowan will pull it off--she's long overdue for a star making role. Rose McGowan is freakin' hot and a perfect fit for Sonja. Rhona Mitra is smokin' hot too, but doesn't fit the Sonja role!!

damn these posters are uber hot i love the left hand side bloody brilliant.

Fire in the hole!

i was thinkin the same thing no.10 mitra would have been great for this role. hey is it just me or does this look like that game 'heavenly sword'

heavenly sword + 300

#7 - Well, given these were made purely for Comic-Con and are based off of comic covers, they have nothing to do with the eventual visual style of the movie. They haven't event shot and won't begin until later this year. I think they're going with a very unique visual style, but you can't say that because these posters look a certain way, the movie will look a certain way because they're so incredibly disconnected...

HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rose is a horrible actor. And her voice is not strong enough... perfect maybe for a campy show like Charmed, but awful otherwise. And she's too petite. And too cute. Red Sonjoa should be dangerously, exotically beauitiful, not "cute." Horrible choice. Robert's judgment has definitely been clouded on this one. Pillow talk should not spill over into casting.

I feel like all comic heroes, no matter how many villains they kill, adhere to a sense of honor, a moral code if you will. Like those they play, one hopes that the actor playing the character reflects this sense of honor in their own lives, unfortunately, neither Rose McGowan nor Robert Rodriguez project the possession of these qualities. Personal choices are personal choices, but they should recognize that audiences will never accept their partnering on films, especially comic based films. Concerning the poster... the second one is totally off balance, as the face looks distorted. It blows my mind when studios pay so much money for flawed creative. As a side note, I'm not saying that Rose McGowan is brainless, but like the previous comments, I agree that a female lead in this type of film needs a certain strength, both physically and intellectually... my initial impression is that Rose McGowan lacks both. I thought Rhona Mitra would be the perfect choice, other suggestions: Evangeline Lilly, Kristen Bell, Rachel McAdams, Pink? I sincerely hope they recast this film, otherwise, I'll be sure to catch it when it's on HBO.

Rose McGowan...blah. No excited about her at all. Hated her in Charmed and pretty much anything else she has ever been in. But I will be willing to wait and see. I didnt want to see Tom Cruise as Lestat either but I liked it after I saw it so I am willing to give McGowan a chance though I am not hopeful.

Of all the literary fantasy characters in the genre of High Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery no character has become as indelible and profoundly mythic and iconic as Conan. The creation of this character in the 1930’s by Robert Ervin Howard, is a feat of imagination and wannabe desires that rivals and surpasses even the characters of Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes, Fleming’s James Bond, Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings, Stoker’s Dracula, Harris’s Hannibal Lecter, Rowling’s Harry Potter, and very likely even Siegel’s and Shuster’s Superman. Conan became every little boys and grownup’s fantasy dream of living in a time of total dominion of your destiny, regardless of your birth’s pedigree. If you had the physical might and sword skills you could cleave a road through life in times of total political incorrectness, lack of scruples, absent social conscience, unrepentant lack of pity, vengeful lust, greed to thwart and ridicule even the most profoundly heartless carpetbagger, robber baron or the worst manipulator and hypocritical and jaded wall street vermin of our current times. The chronicles of the battles and triumphs Conan had against the darkest and most pestilent ghouls ready to shred his very soul and scrape his flesh from his bones; or thwarting the most powerful, wretched and evil sorcerer’s imaginable intent on killing him, or escaping the claws and teeth of the deadliest of beasts, his vanquish of treacherous enemies wanting his head, or defeating horrifying monsters and means of death made possible by magic and sorcery conjured up from a sorcerer’s worst and most virulent nightmares, was something that left the readers with a thirst for more. Conan; slave, pirate, gladiator, gambler, bully, outlaw, plunderer, scoundrel, womanizer, slayer, fortune hunter, soldier, mercenary, fighter, lover, etcetera, had no equal. That is until the minds of Barry W. Smith and Roy Thomas created an archetypal ferociously deadly, unyielding, cunning, and viciously efficient and skilled female warrior equal to Conan’s might and skill with a sword, and possibly the only character that might have given Xena a tinge of fear in her heart. I am speaking of Red Sonja. There have been comic books, written novels, and movies with the character of Red Sonja, but they never got the attention that they merited, and the movies made of the Red Sonja character have also been sadly saddled with a gamut of baggage ranging from bad scripts, horrid acting, laughable choreography; exacerbated further with bad choices of actors, actresses, directors and writers who carelessly and in tangent with producers, directors and studios quilty of never took a seriously making an effort to make and create a good giving game movie franchise bonanza. Sadly, I see the same history being repeated again. Every one is in awe of Mr.Rodrigue’z resident genius status, so much so that no one seems to be willing to say boo! to him. That is very wrong, for regardless of how gifted Mr. Rodriguez is, he continuously displays a penchant to give roles to past resident Joanne the plummer, who may have done a dandy job in cleaning and routering his pipes, and maybe a good amount of competent rubs on his head, even at the expense of just plain and objective common sense. If you get a good script, a decently good director who has deflated his ego, the most appropriate star for the role regardless of connections, a committed studio and crew willing to collaborate and work in tangent, and even challenge gifted directors choices, and apathy of studio executive’s, everyone working together could very possibly put together something that will make little boys and large googly eyed big boys come back for more, by giving them something that has a nescient chance of flowering into a cash cow franchise. The best thing that Mr. Rodriguez should have done before handing out the roles of Red Sonja is to take a very cold shower to sharpen his focus, gone and done his best if need be to find Hand Solo, or studio executive’s willing to use common sense in questioning the choices of actors and personnel to carry the tune, then maybe this one more try to make a franchise of Red Sonja, might get off the ground and fly far and wide. Rose McGowan may be nice to look at through dark glasses, but in the light of day, she is not the right one to play Red Sonja regardless of how glossy the posters are, how good the airbrushing is done, or even how much time and effort is spent on exercising, toning up, and attending acting boot camps. Not everyone is Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltro, Hillary Swank, Joan Allen, Emma Thompson, Jodie Foster, Betty Davis, Helen Mirren, or Vanessa Redgrave. Sadly, the very beautiful and talented Ms. McGowan is likewise not the right person for the role as much as those in the know seem to assure those of lesser knowledge and abilities like myself, who see her choice to portray Red Sonja on the screen to be nothing but a train wreck coming. Why?, she neither has the temperament, character or body….yes, I said body for the role. So who would this amateur know-nothing have picked for the role…..someone who has the character, looks, and body….yes!, I said body and moves for the role as well. Red Sonja is an iconic female that can inflame dreams and desires not only of loin and fantasy dreams, but of bloodlust epiphanies even more so. The Romans knew well how wonderfully entertaining and fun cathartic mindless violence can be. Unfortunately, no one was awake at the switch when Mr. Rodriguez offered the talented Ms. McGowan the title role. So….whom would I have picked that in my humble opinion would be most likely to pull off the Red Sonja franchise off the ground with a good script and competent director………..If she would have accepted the role, I would give for your consideration……..Hudson Leick.