Amber Heard to Play 'Red Sonja?'

Blonde bombshellAmber Heardis the top choice to lead Nu Image/Millennium’sRed Sonjaremake andSimon West(The Mechanic) is set to direct, says producer Avi Lerner.

“We didn’t want to start it until we’d finished Conan,” Lerner toldEmpire, referring to Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarianremake starring Jason Momoa. ”We will definitely shoot Red Sonja in between Conan and Conan 2. We already chose the director: an English guy called Simon West.”

Heard is Lerner’s“favorite for the role” after seeing her work in the Nu Image/Millunnium movieDrive Angry 3Dalongside Nicolas Cage. Lerner does acknowledge he hasn’t talked to Heard about the movie and the studio will be“talking to a few girls for the role.”

A reboot of the sword-and-sandal epic was kicked around inJune 2008with Robert Rodriguez producing for his then girlfriend Rose McGowan attached to wear the chain mail bikini. Highlander: Endgamedirector Douglas Aarniokoski was all set to go behind the camera, and the studio even disseminatedteaser postersfeaturing McGowan as the flame-haired heroine. But by 2010, Rodriguez and McGowan were no longer an item and the project was scrapped.  Millenniumreportedlydiscussed the role with Megan Fox, but nothing ever came of it and Fox slipped into obscurity following her Transformers firing.

Heard is also in talks to star in the NBC drama pilot“Playboy” about a group of women (bunnies) working at the New York Playboy Club in the 1960s.

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