Apparently the Red Sonja actress crapped on the source material and said it would be very female empowered and then said something about the “male gaze”.
I love 70s through 90s Conan comics and would sometimes buy Red Sonja along with them. Also there are some great books as well as the original Robert E Howard Conan (which I read a few months ago). Goes without saying that the audience for Red Sonja is male and in the lore (not sure if they have changed it or not) she said she would share her bed with the man who can beat her in a fight. So I’d personally end the movie where she meets the man who defeats her.
Honestly a Conan or Red Sonja series with violence and sexy women would do great. Which is why they would rather give us butchered Wheel of Time or Rings of Power
I'm so done with it all and I don't know why anyone gets their hopes up these days. It's also why I've practically boycotted anything live action because what I've decided to describe as the 'millennial self-insert' problem. Let's face it, pretty much all of the actors that were any decent and in shape have gotten old now. Which is why they desperately trot them out for the next shitty reboot movie.
No one wants these millennial actors in any capacity. Even just based on looks they do nothing even getting vaguely into shape for the types of roles that they're picked for. They just put on a coloured wig pretend they're a jedi and it makes me cringe. The fat asian is an example of this and so is the spindly cat lady. They almost all look pretty spindly even when they're not going to be overweight as fuck.
Mark my words, they're going to get desperate soon, they'll be rolling in a bunch of fatties as actors for roles that they do not fit for at all and it's going to be extremely jarring for normies. They simply don't have the replacements they need to make anything vaguely interesting. The white male actors of old especially that women would gush over are completely done because Hollywood isn't going to scout anybody fit enough so that's completely out of the window.
It might seem odd that I've dedicated a massive rant about this but this is one of the major things that completely suspended my belief about life action mediums lately. I mean can you imagine some fucking millennial NPC actor trying to play a deep voiced villain? It's going to be ludicrous. I wouldn't pretend I would be good at that either, I'd have to do a different role. Women aren't allowed to be attractive in any capacity either and Hollywood has the exact same problem that the games industry has as well where they keep beating women with the ugly stick so that shit is all out of the window for marketing too.
Agreed. I think I’ll just buy some old Conan and Red Sonja comics next time I go to the comic book store