Filming at the time was anticipated to begin by the end of the year. Parkes producing through the Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation banner they created. In April 2014, Mattel teamed with Sony Pictures to produce the film, which would have Jenny Bicks writing the screenplay and Laurie Macdonald and Walter F. Will Ferrell as the toy company CEO Īdditionally, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Issa Rae, Ncuti Gatwa, and Hari Nef appear as different variations of Barbie and Ken.ĭevelopment on a film based on the Barbie toy line began in September 2009, when it was announced that Mattel had signed a partnership to develop the project with Universal Pictures and with Laurence Mark as producer, but nothing came to fruition.Pictures.Īfter being expelled from "Barbieland" for being a less-than-perfect doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness. Gosling and the rest of the cast were announced in early 2022, and filming began that March in England, wrapping in July.īarbie is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 21, 2023, by Warner Bros. Gerwig was confirmed as director and co-writer with Baumbach in 2021. Robbie was cast in 2019 and serves as a producer (through the Luck圜hap Entertainment banner) with production credited alongside Mattel Films and Heyday Films. Following multiple writer and director changes and the casting of two different actresses to play the title role, Sony lost the rights and these were subsequently transferred to Warner Bros. The film was announced in 2009 by Universal Pictures with Laurence Mark producing, but development began in April 2014, when Sony Pictures acquired its rights.
The film stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, with a supporting ensemble cast that includes Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, Issa Rae, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman and Kate McKinnon. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel from Ruth Handler, the film is the first live-action Barbie film after several computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming television films. Barbie is an upcoming American romantic comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
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