UPDATED, 9:22 A.M.: Warner Bros has unveiled the latest trailer for Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie film, which bows in theaters on July 21.
Whereas the teaser was a memorable homage to Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey narrated by Helen Mirren, the new one shows a bit more of the dazzling day-glo world of Barbie Land, inhabited by the iconic Mattel doll Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling), before going on to tease their departure into the so-called “Real World.” Gerwig’s latest, written with her husband Noah Baumbach, is poised to open against Christopher Nolan’s anticipated historical drama Oppenheimer for Universal, as well as Lionsgate’s horror-thriller Cobweb starring Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman.
View the new Barbie trailer above and read more about the project below. PREVIOUSLY, DECEMBER 16: Don’t expect a kaleidoscope of color from the new teaser trailer for Warner Bros’ upcoming Barbie movie.
Instead, the bulk of the one-minute teaser (watch it above) takes the titular doll back into history — way back. With an atmospheric tone and an earth-toned palette, it evokes Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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