Daniel Kaluuya’s Barney Movie ‘Will Not Be Odd,’ Mattel CEO Says After Exec Called It an ‘A24-Type’ Film That’s ‘Surrealistic’ and for Adults
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director With Mattel Films off to the races thanks to the blockbuster success of “Barbie,” the studio is moving full steam ahead on its upcoming Barney movie produced by Daniel Kaluuya.
The project became a subject of fascination for cinephiles after Mattel Films executive Kevin McKeon told The New Yorker in July that the script was similar to an A24 movie and the “surrealistic” films from Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze.
Neither of these sources of inspirations are necessarily family friendly. “That one is getting a lot of reaction,” Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz recently told Semafor. “It’s too early to be specific, but I can tell you we are taking a fresh approach that will be fun, entertaining and culturally oriented.
It will not be an odd movie.” According to Kreiz, Kaluuya’s Barney movie will not be odd. This comes after McKeon said of the project: “We’re leaning into the Millennial angst of the property rather than fine-tuning this for kids.
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