Character History
Red-haired Sonya is the female embodiment of Conan Barbara, the Heroine of Comic Marvel Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. The image of the Amazon with a sword, dressed in erotic armor, became both the object of imitation and the reason for numerous ridicule and parodies.History of character creation
Character authors - Writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor Smith. The name of the Heroine The creators borrowed from the historical story of Robert Howard "Shadow Walgara": there is a red-haired Sonya - Lyhai adventurers of Ukrainian origin, helping to defend Vienna from the invasion of Suleiman's magnificent. However, except for the name, of other common features with Sonya from comics, she has no - the character and biography of Amazons were written under the influence of another red-haired girl from the story of Howard, Agnes de Shatilon.
To avoid copyright problems, Thomas has changed the writing name of the heroine on Sonja instead of Sonya, which, however, did not prevent the heirs of Howard to initiate a trial. In 2007, the parties came to the settlement agreement, and the comic creates registered the RED Sonja trademark.
Biography of Red Sony
According to the fictional biography, Sonya comes from Persia, more precisely, from the girling - the area on the Caspian Sea coast. She lost his family as a result of a robbery raid and survived cruel rape, after which he had difficulty recovered. Gorky crying Sony heard the goddess of the scout. She offered her award in the award of the fighting mastery in return for the promise that Sonya would no longer fall into bed with a man if he did not defeat her in an honest battle before that. The girl agreed and from that moment the tirelessly trained, mastering the gift received and preparing for revenge. Over time, the owner of the fire champions acquired the glory warranty and began to sow everywhere destruction and death.Fans and imitators love to portray Sonya in a minimalistic suit, reminiscent of the scaly bikini and the display of its luxurious forms, but in the original comic. The girl was dressed more modest - in leather shorts and a chain shirt. The indispensable feature of the sony appearance became loose hair, the shade of which changes from light redhead to the flame red.
Red Sonya in films and books
The first appearance of Red Sony refers to 1973 - she was taken out as a minor character of comics about Conne-Varvar. 2 years later, she acquired its own series, which included 34 issues, after which the creators organized a restart of its storyline. In accordance with the updated chronology of events, another Sonya acts in new comics, which is a distant descendant of the first.
Quotes and references to the character are found in the comics "of all marvel stars". In 2005, Dynamite Entertainment publishing house, bought licensed, released its version of graphic stories about Sona. In Russia, "Saga about Red Sona" was published, which included 18 books.
The heroine was paroded in a variety of forms, for example, in the form of a series of red shetland comics about a humanoid mare, dressed in a characteristic bikini. Another famous reference is the Black and White Comic about Red Sophia, created by the artist Dave Simom. The humorous character Marvel Beverly Svitzler also appeared on the cover in the notorious erotic attire of Sony.
In 1985, the film "Red Sonya" in the genre of fantasy militant came out in Italy. Now he is considered a classic of adventure cinema, but at one time failed at the box office and was rapidly critics. The Sony's role was played by the Danish actress Brigitt Nielsen, chosen by the director for the high (184 cm) growth and sports figure. Her candidacy was accidentally found - the creators of the tape noticed the photo Nielsen on the cover of the magazine, when 8 weeks remained before the shooting. Prior to that, they were unsuccessfully casting casting for a whole year, but no actress created the impressions of both beauty and power and therefore was not suitable for the role of Amazon.
The partner of Brigitta became Arnold Schwarzenegger. He confessed in an interview that the hot romance was broken on the set, which, however, quickly UGAS after the end of working together.
Red Sonya appeared in a single episode of the series "Conan's Adventures", where she played the American model and actress Angelica Bridges.
In 2017, it was announced that the shooting of the new film release of the "Red Sony" was announced, but 2 years later it became aware of the freezing of the project. Millenium Films has adopted such a solution in connection with the scandals around the name of the director Brian Singer, accused of planting juvenile. Nevertheless, the film still plan to rear. Judging by the description, the producers want to create a cruel and bloody movie with Rating R, which is very atypically for comic-based paintings.
Bibliography
- 1981 - "Ring Ikribu"
- 1982 - "The Night of the Demon"
- 1982 - "When the hell laughs"
- 1982 - "Enditis Daughter"
- 1983 - "Against prince hell"
- 1983 - "Rock Star"
Filmography
- 1985 - "Red Sonya"
- 2000 - "Conan's Adventures"