Barbie would be classified as an adapted screenplay.Although the movie campaigned for Best Original Screenplay, Variety reported on Wednesday (January 3) that the film would instead be classified as an adapted screenplay.
Previous films with pre-existing characters, such as Toy Story 3 and Before Sunset, have been classified as adapted screenplays.However, Apatow was not happy to hear the news, and took to X/Twitter to express his thoughts. “It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” he wrote on Saturday (January 6).“There was no existing material or story.
There was a clear box.”It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material. There was no existing material or story.
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