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Collider announced that a new live action movie based on Red Sonja will unshockingly go the PC route, and be less about a male-gaze viewpoint:

It was a great experience. The prep and stunt rehearsals and horseback riding, [were all] things that I hadn't done before, so the whole process of prepping was amazing. Working with MJ as a director was incredible. And what I think is different from what we know of Red Sonja is that it was very, and the comics as well, was very male gaze-oriented and this is a completely different story. It's a very empowered woman, and that's what I loved about the story. I don't know yet when it's coming out, but I'm very excited to see it. I haven't seen anything yet.

Well I'm just simply not interested in a movie that, despite what's told, will still be "darker" in its tone. So I'm not sure what they're driving at here, since the original comics had a dark enough tone as it is. The original premise in the Bronze Age was that Sonja was a victim of a gang rape, and the goddess Scatach granted her considerable fighting skills, and asked her only to sleep with men who'd defeated her in fair combat. The filmmakers are unshockingly slapping Roy Thomnas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Doug Moench and Howard Chaykin in the face after all the effort they made in their time to set up the original tales. Why does the actress have an issue with the male gaze, but not with any direction that could be considered dark? That's decidedly the most muddled part of these woke ideologues' arguments.

The new movie project had been through delays over the past several years, and as far as I'm concerned, it did not need to be greenlighted at all. If anything, it could do better in animation, but Hollywood's long proven hilariously incompetent with that kind of approach to marketing and art. And all the talk of "empowerment" is old news that fails to take merit into consideration.

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