Millennium Films finally managed to get its Red Sonja reboot into production earlier this year, with Revenge star Matilda Lutz taking over from Hannah John Kamen as the fearsome warrior of the title. We recently got a first look at Lutz as Sonja via an official promo image, and we now have word on a new addition to the cast.
THR reports that German star Veronica Ferres (Rossini, Crisis, Salt & Fire) has signed on to play the Goddess Ashera, who also happens to be the mother of the title character.
M.J. Bassett is directing, and the cast also features Wallis Day as Annisia, Robert Sheehan as Draygan, Michael Bisping as Hawk, Martyn Ford as General Karlak and Eliza Matengu as Amarak.
Brigitte Nielsen previously played Red Sonja in the 1985 movie of the same name, but this new project is being described as "more an adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s original Marvel comic than a reboot of the 1985 feature."
“I’ve wanted to make a Red Sonja movie since I was a teenager — she has been a powerful presence for me and a character that I have always wanted to bring to the screen with my own voice and vision. When I met Matilda Lutz, I knew she had all the magic I was looking for and could see the complexity and depth she would bring to Sonja,” Bassett said in a statement when production kicked-off.