Release Date: TBA
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Screenwriter: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Cast: TBA (Rodriguez wants Rose McGowan as the lead character).
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Plot Summary: "Barbarella" tells the story of a female mercenary who roams across the universe in a distant future, undertaking missions that require her physical fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality. In travels that span galaxies known and unknown, "Barbarella" will challenge tradition, startle the senses and take audiences on an epic adventure of discovery and wonder. "Barbarella" made her debut in 1962 in a French graphic magazine written and illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest, and her adventures have been published around the world. The first film version, starring Jane Fonda produced by Dino De Laurentiis, was released in 1968.
Scoop Feedback:
October 4, 2000... Drew Barrymore's name had been attached to this project for almost a year before any further development announcements were heard. Now the project has an established screenwriter working on it (John August, who also wrote Go and Jurassic Park 3) and a storyline. The film won't be a remake of the 1968 Roger Vadim film; instead, it will be based upin creator Jean Claude Forest's two French comic book adventures starring the celestial vixen, Le Semble Lune ("The Moon Like") and Le Miroir au Tempetes ("The Mirror of Storms").
['Zen' and 'The J Train' were the only ones excited about this project to write in. Sorry Drew.]
March 31, 2001... In the last weekly column update to
the Internet Movie Database's's Ask a
Filmmaker column, screenwriter John August addresses a Brazilian fan's question about how the screenplay of Barbarella is coming along. August again reiterates that the new Barbarella picture won't be a remake of the Jane Fonda film but a new adventure based upon two of her other comic book adventures. He also reveals that the film is being written as a PG-13 allowing August the opportunity to include not exactly nudity but "a playful sexuality."
"As you suspected, there will be an action/adventure aspect to the movie, which is one of the things that attracted me to the project, particularly the ability to do action scenes in zero gravity," writes August in the column. "Will [Barbarella] be a blockbuster? I hope so, but it won't be a blockbuster until it's actually a movie, which is still quite a ways off. At this point, I'm just focussing on getting the script the best it can be, so we can find the right director and get it made."
To read more of August's response to the letter writer, check out
the March 30 Internet Movie Database's's Ask a Filmmaker column. [All your Internet Movie Databases are belong to Jon Reeves.]
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