BORAT Star Sacha Baron Cohen Turned Down A LOT Of Money To Star In Upcoming RED SONJA Reboot

BORAT Star Sacha Baron Cohen Turned Down A LOT Of Money To Star In Upcoming RED SONJA Reboot

With cameras rolling on the Red Sonja movie, it's said that Borat and The Trial of the Chicago 7 star Sacha Baron Cohen turned down a big money offer to join the fantasy comic book adaptation. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Aug 30, 2022 07:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Movies
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Last week, we learned that Millennium Media's Red Sonja is finally shooting in Bulgaria. The movie has been through a number of filmmakers and a few different leading ladies, but Matilda Lutz will now play the title character in a movie helmed by M.J. Bassett.

Joining her in the cast are Wallis Day, Robert Sheehan, Michael Bisping, Martyn Ford, Eliza Matengu, Manal El-Feitury, and Katrina Durden, though news broke via Deadline last night that Oliver Trevena (Wire Room) has also boarded the project in a key role. 

Trevena will play Tr’aal, a gladiator-type warrior who joins Sonja in her fight against the evil emperor. However, we've also learned that Red Sonja came close to landing a huge name for its big bad once upon a time. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen was approached to play the villainous magician Kulan Gath in this movie about the She-Devil with the Sword.

Millennium wanted him to lead the cast alongside Hannah John-Kamen, but the actor - coming off the back of an Oscar nomination for his work in The Trial of the Chicago 7 - turned down a whopping $7 million offer. He was in high demand at the time, of course, and that opportunity was presented to him when Joey Soloway was at the helm. 

Since then, the screenplay has been rewritten, and we no longer know if the character will appear.

Adapted from the sword and sorcery comic books of the same name from Dynamite Entertainment, Red Sonja is based on the heroine created by Robert E. Howard and adapted by Roy Thomas. The character is described as a fearsome warrior boasting a high degree of skill with a sword, though no story details have been revealed.

Red Sonja doesn't currently have a release date, but we're betting it will arrive in theaters next year. There's always a chance it heads straight to streaming, of course, but that will likely hinge on how much has been spent on the movie!

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