Edgar Wright is getting at the back of the digicam to direct Sydney Sweeney’s expected reimagining of Barbarella.
When Sydney Sweeney brandishes a apparently phallic laser gun for her reimagining of Barbarella, she may well be doing so beneath the watchful perceptible of Edgar Wright (Extreme Night time in Soho, Child Driving force, Scott Pilgrim vs the International). In step with Closing date, Wright is in talks to direct Barbarella, with Jane and Honey Goldman negotiating to co-write the script.
As Closing date notes, bringing Jane Goldman boarded displays how severe Sony is ready assigning robust skill to Sweeney’s dream venture. Jane Goldman’s writing credit come with screenplays for Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Invisible Provider, X-Males: First Magnificence, Stardust, the later Kingsman: The Blue Blood, and extra.
Throughout the backlash for Sony’s abysmal Wonder movie Madame Internet, Sweeney stated she joined the movie to put herself to tone Any individual However You. The rom-com was once an superior good fortune, with $219M+ international. With Sweeney being a bankable superstar on the studio, Sony is able to blast her into range for an action-packed remake of Roger Vadim’s 1968 science-fiction vintage starring Jane Fonda as Barbarella.
In Vadim’s Barbarella, an astronaut within the forty first century embarks on horny misadventures occasion in the hunt for to oppose a nefarious scientist who threatens in order malicious again into the galaxy. Closing date says Wright has had his perceptible on Barbarella for a occasion. He met with Sweeney next the venture was once introduced however had but to comply with direct it. Now, Wright is including Barbarella to his record of later endeavors.
Earlier than rolling cameras on Barbarella, Wright is teaming up with Glen Powell, Sweeney’s Any individual However You co-star, for a remake of Stephen King’s The Operating Guy. Between Wright’s distinctive visible taste, Jane and Honey Goldman’s mixed skills, and Sweeney’s arise in superstar energy, Barbarella may well be the motion blockbuster Sony’s been looking ahead to.
Month speaking in regards to the personality, Sweeney stated, “Barbarella is just such a fun character to explore. She really just embraces her femininity and her sexuality, and I love that. She uses sex as a weapon and I think it’s such an interesting way into a sci-fi world. I’ve always wanted to do sci-fi. So we’ll see what happens.”
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