class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-66546″ title=”Drive Angry – Amber Heard” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2011/01/piper-1.jpg” alt=”” width=”167″ height=”208″ />After a long and protracted development period (which included a version Robert Rodriguez was due to produce with partner Rose McGowan a couple of years back) could a remake of Red Sonja finally be on the cards?
The company behind the upcoming Conan reboot, Nu Image, appear to finally have a time pencilled in and producer Avi Lerner had this to say to Empire when quizzed:
“We will definitely shoot Red Sonja in between Conan and Conan 2. We already chose the director: an English guy called Simon West.”
West is currently in pre-production on the Nicolas Cage action pic The Medallion, so presumably, this would all start coming together after he’s finished on that project. With a director locked, who is the studio looking at to fill the shoes of 80’s Danish model-turned-actress-turned-celebrity houseguest Brigitte Nielsen? None other than Amber Heard apparently, although it may be wise if someone actually informed her of this.
“Amber is the new Red Sonja… but she doesn’t know it yet! When you write it she’ll get the shock of her life! She’ll call me and say ‘How dare you talk to Empire before you talk to me?!'”
The studio has just finished working with the actress on Drive Angry (which stars the ubiquitous Nicholas Cage) so maybe she won’t take much coaxing to slip into the loincloth and weld a big-ass sword.
We’ll keep you updated if and when she signs on the dotted line.
