Sydney Sweeney of Euphoria will star in and executive produce a new Barbarella film for Sony
Barbarella, dubbed "the most beautiful creature of the future," is returning to our time. And, as we all know, Jane Fonda played Barbarella, a "five-star double-rated astronavigatrix Earth lady," in the 1968 film, but who should play her today? Of course, Sydney Sweeney. According to Deadline, the Euphoria star will direct and executive produce a Sony remake (or reboot, legacy sequel, or whatever they're creating these days) of Barbarella.
Based on Jean-Claude Forest's French comic, Barbarella follows the aforementioned astronavigatrix on a "wingdinger," traveling from world to planet "doing her thing"—ok, we'll stop citing the great trailer for the 1968 film. However, in the original, Barbarella travels from planet to planet, having fun while attempting to stop the crazy scientist Durand Durand from taking over the galaxy with his Positronic Ray.
Of all, what made the original so memorable was Jane Fonda's struggle with all of these shoddy late-'60s science fiction props, costumes, and sets. It's a ludicrous film that, if done well, might make for a hilarious Sydney Sweeney production.
In the previous fifty years, there has been no shortage of people attempting to create a new Barbarella. In the 2000s, Robert Rodriguez attempted to make a Barbarella film with Rose McGowan, but he dropped out once the budget hit $80 million.
"It was a tremendous bummer," Rodriguez said at the time to MTV. "We had all of this artwork and screen testing of how it would look. It was a pretty amazing, R-rated, sensual version of a Star Wars movie, almost like the [1981 animated] film Heavy Metal. Something that no one could ever see. It was going to be fantastic."
Amazon announced a TV series pilot in 2012, scripted by James Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who also collaborated on the Rodriguez project, and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Refn eventually dropped out to focus on The Neon Demon.
"I don't own Barbarella; the estate does, but I opted to focus on The Neon Demon," Refn told The Playlist in 2016. "There are also other television programs that have piqued my interest." I truly enjoy designing things from start to finish. [...] Some things are better left alone. You don't have to redo everything."
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