In more remake news, Robert Rodriguez will direct Universal's adaptation of the sci-fi comic “Barbarella”. The character was made famous by the 1968 movie adaptaion , which starred Jane Fonda and was produced by Dino De Laurentiis (he who thought Jodie Foster was not sexy enough to play Clarice Starling in “Silence of the Lambs”), who is also producing the new film with Martha De Laurentiis. Those two have not done great work, successful, but not great in terms of critical praise. Rodriguez has had much more critical success, but that is still divided. He, however, does have the visual flare to make some pretty sweet eye candy, and the source material is full of itI went on IMDB to have a looksie at the plot (I have never seen it…hang my head low) and was met with this which made me howl with laughter.
” After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease (masked by the film's opening titles), Barbarella (Jane Fonda), a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Exessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essance of Man.”
The futuristic mercenary character Barbarella (which actually debuted in 1962 and was written and illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest) roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity, sensuality, and often lead to sex. The original tag line read ” Who seduces an angel? Who strips in space? Who conveys love by hand? Who gives up the pill? Who takes sex to outer space? Who's the girl of the 21st century? Who nearly dies of pleasure?”
Well this is sounding better and better all the time.
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are developing an original adventure for the new movie. Purvis and Wade co-wrote Casino Royale and recently finished the next Bond movie, which has a working title of Bond 22 so expect something a little more high brow than the original camp classic sex romp . Rodriguez, who is currently in theaters for Planet Terror, one-half of the Grindhouse double feature he co-directed with Quentin Tarantino, was expected to next take on an adaptation of The Jetsons or Land of the Lost, but his attention will now be turned toward helping Universal get Barbarella fast-tracked into theaters by 2008.
I guess this means we can look forward to “The Jetsons” and “Land of the Lost” coming soon to a theater near you…..great.
Who would be cast as the space age trollop? Anna Faris comes to mind. She is getting great reviews for her comedy work in “Smiley Face” even if they say the movie is slight. Rachel McAdams has proven Comedy chops as well.
I would like to see our favourite drunken slutty celebrity come back with a tongue in cheek action/sex/sci fi romp and really go for it. Give it to Lindsay!! Let he prove her comedy worth again! This time, with the lack of wardrobe, she should be at home. She looks the part, she has pretty much lived the part, the only thing she will need to get used to is the sci fi setting. All jokes aside, we all know that there is a great actress inside this girl, she just needs to get over her rebellion, and make us proud.
3 comments:
What about Even Rachel Wood....she would be fierce!!!
Sarah Michelle Gellar....God knows she needs something to bring her back. Or even Eliza Dushku....Any Buffyverse person would do
I remember the days when Drew Barrymore was rumored to be the lead in the remake.
Nowadays I think they should give it to anyone BUT Jessica Alba, Rachel would be ace, but I think Scarlett Johansson is the only young actress nowadays who has the acting chops and sexiness enough to pay homage to Fonda and contribute something of her own.
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