Greta Gerwig to co-write Barbie film with Noah Baumbach, eyeing to direct
Mattel Movies has cycled by way of plenty of big-name skills throughout their effort to place collectively a live-action Barbie film. Now, nonetheless, they seem to have modified course a bit by signing a pair of indie darling to pen the screenplay. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach will co-write the script, whereas Gerwig is eyeing to direct the undertaking herself.
Putting the traditional Mattel doll within the fingers of two famend indie filmmakers comes after a yr of start-stop manufacturing. Amy Schumer was initially hooked up earlier than Anne Hathway signed on to star beneath the route of Aletha Jones. The undertaking then moved from Sony to Warner Bros., the place Patty Jenkins was circling the director’s chair. Lastly, Margot Robbie got here aboard as Barbie, and now we all know who will probably be guiding the film’s story (by way of The Hollywood Reporter).
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One of many indie world’s favourite energy , Baumbach and Gerwig have labored collectively quite a few instances. The latter starred within the former’s 2010 movie Greenberg, in addition to 2012’s Frances Ha and 2015’s Mistress America, each of which they co-wrote. Individually, Gerwig had her breakout directorial debut with Girl Chook and is at present in post-production on the star-studded Little Girls; Baumbach is a frequent co-writer of Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Improbable Mr. Fox) and is understood for movies like The Squid and the Whale and The Meyerowitz Tales.
Robbie can also be producing Barbie beneath her LuckyChap banner alongside Tom Ackerley. Robbie Brenner is producing for Mattel Movies.
