Friday, June 09, 2006
Red Sonja
I've just recently been enjoying the new Red Sonja graphic novel. Of course, we all remember the surprisingly good 1985 film with Brigitte Nielsen and Sandahl Bergman (if you ignore the annoying cute little kid) but isn't it time now for another one? Yes, it is! And a new one is already in production - but currently locked in development hell. We'll see what happens.
You can find out more about the original movie here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089893/
And there's an excellent - really excellent - background article on Red Sonja from Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sonja
There were also some excellent paperbacks in the 1980s and it would be nice if these were reprinted - 20 years is after all a big enough gap for a new market to grow through and become interested.
For such an exciting character with a long pedigree stretching back to Robert E Howard, there are surprisingly few fan groupings for Red Sonja - hopefully this will change in the future.
You can find out more about the original movie here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089893/
And there's an excellent - really excellent - background article on Red Sonja from Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sonja
There were also some excellent paperbacks in the 1980s and it would be nice if these were reprinted - 20 years is after all a big enough gap for a new market to grow through and become interested.
For such an exciting character with a long pedigree stretching back to Robert E Howard, there are surprisingly few fan groupings for Red Sonja - hopefully this will change in the future.
