![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Gerwig became attached to the project along with co-writer Noah Baumbach when her name became Hollywood royalty thanks to her 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, which earned six Oscar nominations including for Best Picture. At one point, after some re-casting, Anne Hathaway was going to be the next Barbie until Sony's option expired and Mattel took back its rights. According to Vanity Fair, the toy maker Mattel has been trying to get one going since 2009 with Universal Studios commissioning early drafts from Sex and the City and The Greatest Showmen writer Jenny Bicks and Oscar-winning Diablo Cody and comedian Amy Schumer, who helped write a draft with her writing partner Kim Caramele with Schumer in the title role. The Barbie movie has been in the works for a long time. The closest we've come to Gerwig's Barbie is the American Girl doll straight-to-DVD movies you didn't even know existed. Joe and even the board game Battleship (don't even bother with that last one). We've seen all sorts of live action war movies based on classic toys that tend to skew toward boys and men who remember playing with them: Transformers, G.I. The buzz that's been steadily growing around the movie since the first teaser trailer landed is also partly due to its release at the same time as Christopher Nolan's eagerly anticipated drama Oppenheimer, which seems destined to win all the Oscars next year. The eagerly anticipated Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig opened this weekend to a huge audience and a big box office draw of $155 million. As soon as you hear "Ted Cruz" and "Barbie" in the same sentence, you know your eyes are gonna roll so hard that they may just snap your retinas. ![]()
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