Robert Rodriguez has made a big showing for his movie adaptation of Red Sonja at Comic-Con in San Diego, even distributing publicity material showing girlfriend/Sonja-lead Rose McGowan in the hyperborean heroine's trademark skimpy chain-mail.

Rodriguez will not be directing the film due to other commitments, but has promised to be a very 'hands-on' producer as he hands the reins over to director Douglas Aarniokoski, previously a second-unit director on films such as Resident Evil: Extinction and Once Upon A Time In Mexico, as well as the recently-completed Tekken.

At a promotional panel at the San Diego event, Rodriguez recounted his years-long struggle to bring Red Sonja to the big screen, and how the coincidental submission of a Sonja script to Rose McGowan began to pull the pieces together.

Rodriguez is additionally in talks to act as producer on the forthcoming Conan adaptation. So together with Djimon Hounsou as Thulsa Doom, the next few years are looking to be pretty fruitful ones for Robert E. Howard fans...

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