It's been quite a while since we got an update on Nicolas Winding Refn's Barbarella TV series. You'd be forgiven if you assumed it was dead or even forgot it was ever supposed to happen at all. But not only is it still on, it's moving forward at a new home. Amazon Studios is developing…
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Last year, we got the surprising but not unwelcome news that Nicolas Winding Refn would be revamping Barbarella for the small screen. Now he's being joined by some other big cinematic names. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have co-written the last five Bond movies including Skyfall, have just signed on to write the script.…
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My mind just warped a little bit. While Robert Rodriguez talked for some time about remaking Barbarella, the kooky kitch sci-fi romp starring Jane Fonda and the Orgasmatron, his movie never got off the ground. Then Robert Luketic was appointed director, and that version eventually died as well. But Barbarella is going to be revamped,…
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As part of the screening put together in relation to the SXSW Title Design Competition, Ian Albinson from the website The Art of the Title Sequence put together a nice two and a half minute compendium of excellent film titles. (That features an occasional piece of television, too.) For any long-time film lover, this little…
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Lately there's a casting rumor every single day, and the latest is a one-two for Anne Hathaway, who has been mentioned as the latest possible lead for the revamped Barbarella, and for David O. Russell's possible feature The Silver Linings Playbook. But The Playlist talked to a rep for the actress who says she hasn't…
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The trades have caught up with Robert Luketic's appointment as director of the new Barbarella, with The Hollywood Reporter also naming Joe Gazzam as the screenwriter of the upcoming do-over. When Robert Rodriguez was in charge, the film was set up at Universal but now, producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis are "between deals" and…
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Whenever a well-known role is up for grabs, especially when its a comic book character or some other pop-culture icon, stories seem to flood forth from every last corner of the press and blogosphere. They proclaim, very often as though fact, that somebody, anybody, everybody who looks - or could look - just a little…
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Less than a month after Robert Rodriguez announced his relationship with space siren Barbarella was over, EW are reporting that she's already found her new man. According to them, Legally Blonde and 21 director Robert Luketic is the lucky fella up for the job. The original big screen Barbarella was Jane Fonda, who Luketic directed…
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Some will be sad, some will rejoice, others still will shrug but Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan's proposed Barbarella is, according to the man himself, dead. Talking to MTV, the director has revealed that he turned down $70 million in finance because of a tricky little clause in the small print. The money would have…
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Don't worry, /Film isn't dyeing its hair purple and designing a line of Hot Topic apparel. According to various gossip sites, Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have split, thus throwing McGowan's roles in Barbarella aka "my space ship is nearly finished, seriously," the newly announced Red Sonja revamp, and Girls in Chains! into question. If…
Read More"You could have used a scantily pic." Actress Rose McGowan tells MTV that "I've got part of a spaceship built for me!" In other words, she's the pale, titular character in Robert Rodriguez's big budget remake of Barbarella and the doubters can eat cake. We've known about her attachment to the role made famous…
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In the story of big budget remake of Barbarella, Universal and Robert Rodriguez split over budget issues or his refusal to cast anyone other than his girlfriend Rose McGowan in the lead role (depending on what story you read). The director's attempts to lower the budget from $80 million to $60 million have thus far…
Read MoreNikki Finke has confirmed Robert Rodriguez' story with her Universal sources, and it APPEARS that McGowan wasn't the sore point in the Barbarella project after all. Apparently the Universal execs fell in love with Rose, who appeared in an early screen test back in July. "a rather spectacular screen test of Rose playing the role…
Read MoreLast week The New York Observer broke the news that Universal Studios had backed out of Robert Rodriguez's big screen big-budget remake of Barbarella because Robert was unable to budge on the casting choice of his new fiance, Rose McGowan. Of course, McGowan isn't a big enough star to carry a "$100 million film." "It's…
Read MoreLast we heard, Kate Beckinsale was in consideration to play the lead role in Robert Rodriguez's remake of Barbarella. But to be honest, if Rodriguez's name wasn't attached to the project, we wouldn't have even known that much. And even then, I was kind of hoping that this was going to be one of those…
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Not only do we completely not care about Kate Beckinsale potential casting in the remake of Barbarella, but we're completely uninterested in the whole project. But as it turns out, this is the slowest news day in a while, so we need to report something. The chick flick turned bad genre movie actress is rumored…
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