Come on, Barbie, let’s party! The live-action approach to the story of the iconic doll line has been a long time in the making.
He Barbie the film was originally scheduled to be rewritten by little devil cody with amy schumer in the lead role. After the writer left the project, Cody opened up about the complications that arose from trying to bring the iteration to life.
“I didn’t even produce an initial draft. I failed so badly on that project. I was literally incapable of writing a Barbie script. God knows he tried ”, the Jennifer’s body screenwriter said screen crush in 2018. “To be honest, the timeline coincided with my writing Thulium. He was really overwhelmed at the time, and I think he was really just able to reach out and pull off something super personal. Look, I think the idea of a Barbie The movie is super cool and I hope something gets in there and kills it.”
Months after Schumer’s casting was announced, the comedian also dropped out, citing scheduling conflicts. The native of New York later clarified that there were creative differences that stopped her participation.
“They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” Schumer said. the hollywood reporter in March 2022, noting that he wanted the character to be an “ambitious inventor”, but was turned down.
He last comic standing alum alleged that the plan was for Barbie to invent high heels made of jelly. “I felt like I was letting my team down by not being Barbie,” Schumer admitted at the time. “The idea that that’s just what every woman should want, right there, she should have said, ‘You’ve got the wrong girl.'”
After Schumer’s departure, margot robbie took on the role of Barbie. greta gerwig and Noah Baumbach he later joined to write the script and work behind the camera to bring the story to life.
Prior to production, Robbie joked during an interview with the hollywood reporter in 2020 that Barbie will be “what you didn’t know you wanted”.
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