Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled".
Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled".
Barbie could go in another direction.
I wish they would say why they're "not thrilled". Barbie, as a franchise, has a history of animated movies long before the live-action was a thing. I'm more surprised its taken this long, and hasn't been a flood of "We're redoing Barbie and the Three Musketeers with slightly better animation!" while the iron was hot.
There has been, Netflix have done a handful of different Barbie series with multiple seasons over the last decade. Doesn't seem like the next one is substantially changing direction resultant from the film. Feels like the premise for this article was to just reaction-bait its stars.
Ah, so that's where they went. Makes sense. Probably a better market than the old "Direct-to-Video" releases they did.
They should just get with Larian and do a Barbie RPG instead
As expected
Haven't there been like 200 Barbie movies already? What's the big deal?
Yeah gosh I remember these movies being on all the time as a child because my sister loved them. I still find myself quoting "lefting, leftaroo" on a pretty regular basis.
I think it's like Avatar the Last Airbender, they don't want the movie being made without the original creators. The live action on Netflix did a great job with the mood of the locations and hiring the actors, everything else is pretty bad. They don't want to see all their work bastardized. I get it.
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Haha, exactly. Surprised it isn’t a live action ‘Barbie 2: Return to Kenland’ because marketing says a male lead polls better.
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world thoughts?
Well of course not, they want as many of the sequel dollars as they can possibly get. What, they're to share the hype with filthy animators?!