LAST year a new movie adaptation of Red Sonja was
announced, with plans to film it in 2008 and release it sometime this
year, as the date on promotional posters indicated. Sin City director
Robert Rodriguez was to produce the project, which will star his
fiancee Rose McGowan as the so-called ’she-devil with a sword’.
But now executive producer Joe Gatta has explained what is happening
with this project and when we can expect to see it hit the big screen.
Gatta said the movie had been delayed and the intention is to film Red
Sonja in 2010. The aim is to release it late that same year.
Gatta, who’s also producing the Conan remake, told Empire magazine:
“Because of certain issues and the economy, we had to change our plan a
bit. It’s frustrating because we thought we’d make the movie last year,
before Conan.”
He is confident Red Sonja will go before cameras in 2010, and
confirms it will be an origin story that ignores the previous movie and
is instead based on the original Marvel comic book heroine created by
Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in 1973.
It looks like Dan Aykroyd better work fast if he wants to get Alyssa Milano in the upcoming Ghostbusters
sequel - she’s starting to line up the feature gigs. Following her
horror stint in “Pathology,” The Hollywood Reporter posts that Milano
is grabbing a rom-com. She’ll star and produce My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, which might sound like a sexuality-bending role for the actress, but really it’s just typical.
She’ll play a woman who meets two perfect men and must
decide between them. One (played by Christopher Gorham) is a struggling
novelist, while the other (Michael Landes) is an ad exec. Where the
girlfriend fits in is anyone’s guess. However, the pic does have Beau
Bridges and Carol Kane in additional roles, so there’s that going for
it.
At the Burberry event Rose revealed some exciting news exclusively to JustJared.com that she’s starring in the new adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar!
“My character’s name is Doreen. She’s kind of a 50’s magazine girl from New York, it’s really fun. We’re shooting in South Africa most likely. I’ve never been there, so I’m really excited.”
Plum Pictures announced planned for a new Hollywood version of the novel to be written by playwright and screenwriter Tristine Skyler back in early 2007 with Julia Stiles to star as the novel’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood. At the time the movie is listed as ‘in development’. No word if this will be the same script but it’s presumed.
The Bell Jar begins in New York, after winning a Ladies’ Day contest. Her mental state gradually deteriorates over the summer. During a night out with Doreen, Esther creates her identity as “Elly Higginbottom”, which she refers to again later in the book. At a meeting with Jay Cee, she realizes that she has no plans, only “I don’t know”. At the end of the summer, she stands on the roof of the Amazon hotel, and, piece by piece, scatters her clothes to the wind. When she returns home, she finds that she was not accepted into a writing course, and dreads an entire summer at home, with nothing to do. The days blur into one another, and Esther eventually visits Doctor Gordon, who prescribes shock treatments. Esther begins reading “scandal sheets,” and analyzes each one of the suicide attempts pictured. She “practices” killing herself, then attempts to overdose on her sleeping pills. Her life is saved, however, and she eventually is sent to a mental hospital, Caplan. An old friend of Esther’s, Joan, arrives at Caplan, also after an attempted suicide. Esther moves to a less restrictive hospital, Belsize, although she feels that she is not well enough. Her new doctor, Doctor Nolan gives her shock treatments, and this time they seem to work, lifting the bell jar, at least temporarily. Esther’s life fluctuates up and down, from then, but the book ends on a hopeful note, as she enters for her conference with the Belsize doctors.
Hopefully there will be more information about this project soon. Were all dying to see Rose on the screen again, I know!
If you know anything about Rose McGowan, it’s probably that the actress used to date over-the-top rocker Marilyn Manson or that she’s notorious for bad-girl, vixen-esque acting roles.
So when we ran into the star at the Burberry event celebrating the opening of the British company’s new headquarters in New York and asked her who her Hollywood crush is, we kind of expected McGowan to say something that made more sense — like Johnny Depp. Or Adam Lambert even — someone with at least a little bit of edge or controversy. But no.
Instead, we got an answer no one was expecting: Cary Grant (also random) and — wait for it — Zac Efron.
Yes, Disney’s boy wonder and generally squeaky-clean teen heartthrob is Rose McGowan’s celebrity crush.
Say what? Aside from being 14 years her junior — not that he has a problem with older women — Zac just doesn’t seem like McGowan’s type.
The revelation even seemed to shock Rose herself. The look on her face after she made the confession was pretty priceless. And when I finally picked my jaw up off the floor and asked her why Efron, McGowan said, “I don’t know! Because there’s something wrong [with me].”
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with loving Zefron — he’s a big hit in the MTV Newsroom. But we have to admit, a McGowan/Efron pairing is, as one of our writers put it, a little “twisted.”
But we couldn’t let the former “Charmed” star go without asking her about her secret crush’s chances at this Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards. McGowan stood by her man when I asked if Efron will take home the trophy: “Odds are!” she yelled.
Rose McGowan and Geoff Keighley are hosting GameTrailers TV Presents: The 2009 VGAs-E3 First Look Special,
a blow-out hour-long preview special that teams up with leading game
publishers to unveil the most anticipated games of E3 before the game
industry’s biggest trade show even opens. The special marks the kick
off to the “2009 Video Game Awards” which will air live in December
from Los Angeles.
The E3 invasion begins on Thursday May 28 at 11:00 PM ET/PT, when
Spike TV premieres “GameTrailers TV Presents: The 2009 VGAs-E3 First
Look Special” from the Los Angeles Convention Center, the site of E3
2009.
Rose McGowan turned up for the premiere of Terminator Salvation
yesterday in Los Angeles, looking very cute in a short, green frilly
number. She, of course, voices the character Angie Salter in the Terminator Salvation
video game. It is really nice to see her attending a big Hollywood
premiere for the first time in a long time.
Columbia Pictures hired the exec producers from The Office to write a Ghostbusters
reunion movie. Ghostbusters III. And rumors were the original cast
might be making a return to the flick. Well, it’s happening!
In a new interview, Dan Aykroyd confirms that he Bill
Murray, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, and even Sigourney Weaver are on
board for the third movie.
According to Aykroyd, production might even begin as early as this winter.
As for the film’s plot, it’ll deal with the aging, original
Ghostbusters getting ready to retire and pass on the responsibilities
of protecting NYC over to a new crew, with maybe a female or two this
time helping to capture the ghosts.
No word yet if Alyssa will be apart of the film. *Fingers Crossed*
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