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After a lengthy production process that underwent many changes before director Greta Gerwig could move the ball, Barbie It’s finally heading to cinemas this month. It’s been a long time since a feature film based on the famous Mattel doll. It’s one of those movies that spent years in development hell, and at some point during the project’s planning stages, Diablo Cody He was attached to write the script. Oscar winner Juno The writer ended up leaving Barbie Back in 2018, indicating in an interview with ScreenCrush that year that her exit was for creative reasons.
“I failed so badly with this project,” said Cody. Barbie. “I was literally unable to convert a file Barbie Draft. God knows I tried.”
Now, while speaking with GQ in a new interview, Cody is shedding more light on why things haven’t worked out for her and Barbie. It’s been five years since she moved forward with the project with new writers, and Cody is even more vocal about her Barbie leave. And she points out that when she first stepped up to this project nearly a full decade ago at this point, the general public wasn’t yet ready to buy Barbie as a “righteous feminist” figure.
“I think I know why I get out of bed,” Cody said. “When I was first hired for this, I don’t think the culture wasn’t embraced fam Or bimbo as valid feminist models so far. If you search “Barbie” on TikTok, you’ll find this cool subculture that celebrates femininity, but in 2014, taking this skinny, white-blonde doll and making her a hero was tough.”
On not wanting to lean into “blonde” stereotypes, Cody added, “There was a lot of pressure to not write the dramatic equivalent of ‘math is tough. ‘ I grew up playing with Barbies, and that was kind of the first movie I ever made. He learns.” Lots of people tell stories by playing with dolls.”
Barbie could be a completely different movie
Kodi version of Barbie It could have starred Amy Schumer if the project hadn’t flopped through development hell. Schumer recently spoke out about the failed project, noting that it wasn’t as “feminist and cool” as this new film coming out of director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie. After speaking with GQ, Cody explained how the idea behind casting “Anti-Barbie” made sense at the time it was announced. She goes on to state how she could not achieve the “girl boss feminist development” that was required for the character.
Cody explains, “The idea of an anti-Barbie made so much sense given the feminist discourse ten years ago. I didn’t really have the freedom to write something that was faithful to the symbols; they wanted a girl-feminist take on Barbie, and I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is.”
Adding comparisons to lego movie It was also a problem, Cody added, “I’ve heard countless references to lego movie It’s in development, and that created a problem for me because they’ve done it so well. Anytime I came up with something, it was pretty much the same as they did. It was a roadblock for me, but now enough time has passed for them to cast it [The Lego Movie antagonist] Will Ferrell is the real-life antagonist Barbie A movie and nobody cares.”
Barbie It will be released in cinemas on July 21, 2023.
