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Edgar Wright In Talks For "Barbarella" - Dark Horizons (www.darkhorizons.com)

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Beloved British filmmaker Edgar Wright (“Hot Fuzz,” “Baby Driver”) is in talks to direct the new “Barbarella” at Sony Pictures. In addition, Jane Goldman and her daughter Honey Ross are also in talks to write the script for the project which is still in the early development stage. Jane Fonda famously played the iconic 41st-century […]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why, just... Why?

It's a cult classic (that frankly sucks in my opinion, but I wasn't of age when it came out, so....).

I despise this remake marathon. If a movie wasn't done well the first time I can understand. But Barbarella is a thing if it's time, it will be a completely different story if done today, and will only share the name.

Like Stepford Wives. Doing that remake was pointless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I despise this remake marathon.

It's not a remake:

with this dubbed a whole new take on the character.

Wright can, you'd hope, pick and chose his projects and he wouldn't want to waste his time on a remake.

Barbarella was originally a long-running French comic that has been brought back in American comic books a few times. There is a plenty of material to draw on or space for Wright to go off in his own direction.