
In an interview with Ain't It Cool News, screenwriter John August discussed the long-in-development "Barbarella":
"I need to go back and do another draft. The one thing we do know is that we're very happy with the story, and what it's going to be. It's much more like 'Candide', or, like, 'Private Benjamin' in space," August said. "She's this girl who's grown up in this Utopian little world, and everything is perfect. But she's so curious that she ends up going into the Underworld, and realizing that her tiny little planet is being supported by this giant slave planet. So, she ends up leading a revolution accidentally, and overthrowing the ruler of the slave planet."
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