Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez are still together – professionally and personally, sources tell People.
The actress is starring in three of her fiancé’s upcoming projects – Barbarella, Red Sonja and Woman in Chains! – despite reports to the contrary, according to her rep.
“The production of all three films is moving forward with Rose to star,” the rep tells People exclusively.
As for claims that the couple have called off their engagement, a source close to McGowan says, “She and Robert are fine.”
Amazing news, people! According to the very reliable source USA Today, Rose McGowan has a major new role! She will be directed by Douglas Aarniokoski Red Sonja. Robert Rodriguez will produce. Rose will start intense training before filming begins in October. Read on for further details on the project!
Red Sonja is back.
And Robert Rodriguez has her.
The Grindhouse co-director will produce a new big-screen adventure featuring the flame-haired comic-book vixen. While Brigitte Nielsen wielded Sonja’s sword in the poorly received 1985 version, Rodriguez’s Planet Terror zombie slayer and real-life leading lady, Rose McGowan, will wiggle into the metal mesh bikini in the 2010 release.
“I was surprised when Rose brought me a script of Red Sonja that she liked,” Rodriguez says from his home base of Austin, where he is shooting Shorts, a family film with James Spader and Jon Cryer. “I found it very entertaining. Sonja was strong, smart, cunning — just about everything she’d have to be to survive.”
McGowan’s initial impulse when offered the part? To laugh.
“When they first came to me with it, I thought it was funny,” says the actress, 34. “I do have a body made for sitting on a veranda with mint juleps and a parasol. I don’t know why I always have to save the planet.”
Rodriguez considers her a perfect fit as the mighty, and mighty voluptuous, avenger. “Rose is a pistol. She’s whip-smart, has attitude to burn, is sexy, extremely strong, yet has a vulnerable side that would surprise her closest friends. That description also fits Red Sonja.”
Rose McGowan and Robert Osborne give you The Essentials for July.
The muse of director Robert Rodrguez, Rose McGowan, will take the chair for July as Turner Classic Movies co-host of The Essentials, the network’s signature movie showcase.
Each Saturday at 8 p.m. (ET), McGowan joins TCM host Robert Osborne to introduce “must see” movies with an eye toward helping viewers better understand why these films are important.
Her July picks are:
3:10 to Yuma Saturday, July 5, 8 p.m. (ET)
Although ignored by the Oscars, this classic Western landed a nomination for Best Picture from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Rose McGowan says of the film: “It’s western noir.”
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It is the year of the imprisoned women drama series.
Director Robert Rodriguez is shopping around Women in Chains! a violent drama set at a woman’s prison starring his fiancee, Rose McGowan.
The spec script, penned by Josh Miller and Mark Fortin, has been sent to a number of networks, including NBC and FX.
McGowan is set play one of five chained women at the center of the show, which Rodriguez is expected to direct. The two first worked together on last year’s Planet Terror, Rodriguez’s homage to 1970s exploitation flicks.
The new show also is rumored to be fashioned with a 1970s exploitation sensibility, with such staples like mud wrestling. Details about the plot were first leaked to AintItCool.com earlier this week.
Women behind bars has become a running theme of late. Chains! comes on the heels of HBO’s deal to do an American version of the British female prison drama Bad Girls with Alan Ball, Nancy Oliver and Raelle Tucker.
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Here is some details on what Rose auctioned at the amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS gala. Good job, Rose, for supporting such an important cause.
Rose McGowan and Svetlana Metkina auctioned off a Christian Dior Parfums package, including a personalized scent, for $40,500.
amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS galas have been important and successful fund-raising events for the Foundation since 1993, generating more than $43 million for essential AIDS research. Past events have been hosted by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, and Sir Elton John.
Like the epidemic itself, AIDS research knows no borders. amfAR’s programs have had a global reach since 1986, when the Foundation began awarding international grants. Today, amfAR continues to fund HIV/AIDS researchers worldwide and works to translate that research into effective treatment, prevention, and education programs around the globe.
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