RED SONJA Casts Hannah John-Kamen For Millennium’s Sword-And-Shield Comic Adaptation
Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man And The Wasp, Ready Player One, upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City) will take up the sword in Red Sonja for Millennium Films. Casting comes following the attachment of Netflix/Legendary’s upcoming animated Tomb Raider series writer/exec producer, Tasha Huo.
The move marks the latest film effort since Richard Fleischer’s Brigitte Nielsen/Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1985 adaptation of the on-going 1970s comic from Dynamite Entertainment; Fleischer’s movie bombed critically and commerically but sustained a cult following over the years through merchandising, and a TV incarnation adaptation in the 1990s, years before news arose of remake efforts as of 2018.
The character was originally recreated by Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor with partial inspiration from Robert E. Howard’s own shortstory work from the 1930s, and centers on a young girl from the Western Hyrkanian steppes who trains and sets out to seek revenge for her own rape and the murder of her family.
Joey Soloway (Transparent) is directing from Huo’s script which, according to Borys Kit’s THR exclusive on Wednesday, will be based on the Dynamite publication.
Producing are Mark Canton (300) and Courtney Solomon (After) with Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman of Campbell Grobman Films, Soloway’s Topple Productions partner Andrea Sperling, and Millennium’s Yariv Lerner, Jeffrey Greenstein, Yunger, Les Weldon, Joe Gatta, and Tanner Mobley.
Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, and Trevor Short will exec produce along with Luke Lieberman on behalf of Red Sonja LLC, and Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment, and with Dorothy Canton also executive producing.
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