reports Variety.In a 2021 interview, the 31-year-old Aussie actress said that taking on a live adaptation “comes with a lot of baggage … and a lot of nostalgic connections.
But with that comes a lot of exciting ways to attack it.”“People generally hear ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I know what that movie is going to be,’ and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, maybe I don’t.’”Warner Bros.
shared the first look of the new film through a tweet during a presentation at Las Vegas CinemaCon on Tuesday. The cast includes a bunch of A-listers including Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Will Ferrel and several others.#BARBIEJuly 21, 2023Only in theaters pic.twitter.com/mauCGpizD1Production on the film began in early 2022.
The movie was co-written by Greta Gerwig, who is famous for projects such as “Lady Bird”, and Noah Baumbach, with the film being directed by Gerwig.
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