Margot Robbie had a vision when it came to producing Barbie — and was willing to say anything to get her movie made. “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, OK?” Robbie, 33, told Collider of convincing Mattel and Warner Bros.
to both approve the script and give her creative control over the film. Robbie — who serves as both executive producer and stars in the film as the iconic doll – added that her pitch to green-light the comedy also involved comparing it to some of cinema’s biggest blockbusters. “Studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” Robbie continued in an interview published on Thursday, July 20. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘Dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg‘ – pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.
And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.” Initially, Barbie was set to be helmed by screenwriter Diablo Cody with Amy Schumer in the lead role.
However, Cody, 45, eventually departed the project after being unable to connect with the iteration in a meaningful way. “I never even produced an initial draft.
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