Featured in the teaser are short clips of the rest of Barbie’s world - including some recognizable faces. The teaser, above, is a reference to the ape scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving more credence to the whole “ Barbie is going highbrow” theory. released the teaser for the upcoming film, which is still a bit low on plot. Previously, Avatar: The Way of Water audiences were treated to a teaser trailer entering a fantastical world entirely separate from Pandora - Barbie Land. The trailer indicates that there will be a meta-analysis of Barbie’s popularity and impact with Will Ferrell playing the CEO of Mattel, who doesn’t want Barbie in the real world, and Barbie confronting ideas about who does and doesn’t support her. It turns out Barbie will follow Barbie’s journey into the real world after she begins to have very “adult” thoughts like “Do you guys ever think about dying?” In the real world, she must confront issues like the law saying that she’s not allowed to punch guys who grab her butt in the face (#JusticeForBarbie, honestly) and the fact that teen girls don’t care about her. The trailer gives us a lot of the plot, which was a big question mark previously. The official Barbie trailer debuted on May 25, and it gave us, to quote the Indigo Girls (who are featured in the trailer along with Kate McKinnon, holding a Birkenstock - a clear example of strong lesbian representation), “insight between black and white.” Though, in this trailer, it’s less “black and white” than it is hot pink and every other color in the rainbow. I was like, ‘I don’t know what the fuck she was talking about, but whatever it is, I’m excited she’s behind it.’ And then reading it was, like, ‘Oh my God, I love her even more.’” A Barbie movie that confuses Issa Rae? Oh, we’re so in. “And I’ll be 100 percent honest, when she was talking, like, it was entertaining, but I didn’t get it. Gerwig “was like, ‘I just need to explain what it is,’” Rae teased in a December 7 story. It got to a point where he wanted to direct, and I said, ‘Step aside!’” Star Issa Rae dropped another clue that the film was a little … high concept. While writing the script with Baumbach, Greta told CinemaCon they “we were making each other laugh all the time, and it got to a point where we were making each other cry. In the original plot, “she then goes on an adventure in the real world and by the time she returns to Barbieland to save it, she has gained the realization that perfection comes on the inside, not the outside, and that the key to happiness is belief in oneself, free of the obligation to adhere to some unattainable standard of perfection.” While the “real world” concept has been maintained, this movie looks more like a meta-examination of girlhood and Barbie’s impact than it does like a story of individuality. Schumer left the project because she very specifically wanted Barbie to be an “ambitious inventor.” She dropped out before Gerwig and Baumbach came onto the project but after the studio asked her if Barbie’s invention could be a “high heel made out of Jell-O.” That was absolutely sexist but sounds fun to try on.īefore being produced by Warner Bros, the film was originally going to be produced by Sony and had “a fish-out-of-water story à la Splash and Big, whereby Barbie gets kicked out of Barbieland because she’s not perfect enough, a bit eccentric and doesn’t fit in,” Deadline reported. Photos and posters with both the stars have been released, and if neither of them makes your heart flutter, you’re boring! Margot Robbie took on the starring role of the Mattel doll after Amy Schumer dropped out over creative differences, and Ryan Gosling will play Ken. First, we know Gerwig and her husband, Marriage Story writer Noah Baumbach, are writing the screenplay and Gerwig is directing.
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