Come on, Barbie, let’s go party! The live-action approach to the story of iconic doll line has been a long time in the making.The Barbie movie was originally set to be rewritten by Diablo Cody with Amy Schumer in the lead role.
After the writer departed from the project, Cody opened up about the complications that came with trying to bring the iteration to life.“I never even produced an initial draft.
I failed so hard at that project. I was literally incapable of writing a Barbie script. God knows I tried,” the Jennifer’s Body screenwriter told Screen Crush in 2018. “To be honest, the timeline coincided with my writing Tully.
I was really overwhelmed at the time, and I think I was really only capable of reaching in and pulling out something super personal.
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