Red Sonja Reboot Now Being Directed by Jill Soloway; Bryan Singer Out

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Jill Soloway is writing and directing the Red Sonja movie reboot, replacing Bryan Singer at the helm. Red Sonja was inspired by a couple of characters created by Robert E. Howard and made her debut in the Conan the Barbarian comic books in the early 1970s. She later made the jump to the big screen in 1985's Red Sonja, a film that starred Brigitte Nielsen and was originally meant to be a spinoff of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan movies.

Millennium Films has been working on a Red Sonja movie reboot for years now, and had Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan - then coming off their collaboration on Planet Terror - attached to direct and star in the film about a decade ago. That version never happened, however, and the project ended up spending most of the early to mid-2010s stuck in early development. Then, in September 2018, Millennium hired Bryan Singer to helm the reboot, despite the sexual assault accusations against him at the time. Even more allegations have been made against the filmmaker since then, forcing the studio to place the reboot on hold back in February.

Deadline is now reporting that Red Sonja is moving forward again, only with Soloway attached to both write and direct the fantasy adventure in Singer's place. Soloway issued a statement as part of the announcement, saying "Exploring this powerful mythology and evolving what it means to be a heroine is an artistic dream come true".

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