{"id":35599,"date":"2015-03-03T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35599"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:44:38","slug":"red-sonja-has-new-writer-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/03\/red-sonja-has-new-writer-attached\/","title":{"rendered":"RED SONJA Has New Writer Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redsonja.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redsonja-550x246.jpg\" alt=\"redsonja\" width=\"550\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redsonja-550x246.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redsonja-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redsonja.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Production Company Nu Image\/Millennium Films have attached a new writer to their in development Red Sonja film, which is perhaps not as big a news item as the fact that Nu Image\/Millennium Films still have their Red Sonja film in development.<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter Christopher Cosmos, a former VP at production company Benderspink, has been tapped for the gig. Although he has sold a number of spec scripts since leaving his executive job, none have gone into production yet.<\/p>\n<p>The character was originally conceived by Conan the Barbarian pulp writer Robert E. Howard, but really owes her popularity to <em>Conan<\/em> comic book writer Roy Thomas, who developed the character first in the pages of the 1970s Conan comic and then in her own book. She was previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/12\/history-of-the-comic-book-film-seeing-red\/\" target=\"_blank\">brought to the big screen in 1985<\/a> with Brigitte Nielson in the title role. It did not fare well at the box office nor with critics.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Robert Rodriguez famously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/27\/rodriguez-to-helm-red-sonja-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">was developing<\/a> a Red Sonja project for his then-girlfriend, actress Rose McGowan. Writer\/director Doug Aarniokoski also took a stab at the property but yielded no results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In other news, RED SONJA is still in development&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/03\/red-sonja-has-new-writer-attached\/\" title=\"RED SONJA Has New Writer Attached\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7658,1108],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-christopher-cosmos","9":"tag-red-sonja"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}