This old 80’s classic with Schwarzy and Stallone’s wife is entitled to a remake: trailer
A new version of Kalidor, carried by Brigitte Nielsen.
You know Conan the Barbarian ? Red Sonja is her feminine counterpart!
A flamboyant warrior who will return to the cinema in a remake whose trailer is discovered (below). Matilda Lutz (Revenge) Take the torch in the past by Brigitte Nielsen in the cult film of 1985.
Created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, Red Sonja is part of the universe of Conan the Barbarianwhose road she often crosses on paper. Of course, who says Conan said Arnold Schwarzenegger. So when the director Richard Fleischer adapts comics to the cinema, he chooses the companion of Sylvester Stallone To give it life and bone. The Great Danish Brigitte Nielsen (She measures 1.85 m) has just arrived in Hollywood and won her first role there.
Except that his film is not born under the best auspices. If Arnold Schwarzenegger is committed to give him the reply in what was to be a kind of crossover in the wake of the two films Conan (1982 and 1984), the producer, Dino de Laurentiisbehind the project and behind the films Conanfails to convince Universal Pictures to lend him the rights of Barbarous For his film Red Sonja. So that the character of Scwharzy must change its name and becomes, at the last moment, Kalidor !
It is also under this title that the film will be released in France! Even if Sonja is the heroine, the distributor will prefer to shed light on the supporting role Schwarzenegger and therefore on this ersatz of Conan… well took it, because if Red Sonja was a huge flop at the US and World Box-Office (less than $ 7 million in global revenue), Kalidor A, he gathered 750,000 spectators in France!
Which brings us to 2025 … Forty years later, we are a little more respectful of comics and licenses. And Red Sonja is entitled to a completely dedicated new adaptation, without Conan Or Kalidorwith this official synopsis:
“Captured. Enforced. Forced to fight to survive. Red Sonja must face the bloody arenas of the Empire of a tyrant, bring together an army of marginalized and reconquer his freedom to overthrow Dragan and his ruthless wife, Dark Annisia.”
Note that Matilda Lutz will face the excellent Robert Sheehan (from Umbrella Academy) in the skin of the ugly mad king.
Rest that Red Sonja should not yet be a card: the film will be released in the United States briefly in theaters, on August 15, before arriving in digital from the August 29. In France, there is no date yet.
