Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled".

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• NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish they would say why they’re “not thrilled”. Barbie, as a franchise, has a history of animated movies long before the live-action was a thing. I’m more surprised it’s taken this long, and hasn’t been a flood of “We’re redoing Barbie and the Three Musketeers with slightly better animation!” while the iron was hot.

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  • gila@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There has been, Netflix have done a handful of different Barbie series with multiple seasons over the last decade. Doesn’t seem like the next one is substantially changing direction resultant from the film. Feels like the premise for this article was to just reaction-bait its stars.

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    • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, so that’s where they went. Makes sense. Probably a better market than the old “Direct-to-Video” releases they did.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should just get with Larian and do a Barbie RPG instead

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As expected

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  • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haven’t there been like 200 Barbie movies already? What’s the big deal?

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    • atocci@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah gosh I remember these movies being on all the time as a child because my sister loved them. I still find myself quoting “lefting, leftaroo” on a pretty regular basis.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s like Avatar the Last Airbender, they don’t want the movie being made without the original creators. The live action on Netflix did a great job with the mood of the locations and hiring the actors, everything else is pretty bad. They don’t want to see all their work bastardized. I get it.

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• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world thoughts?

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  • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not thrilled. (Reportedly)

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• korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well of course not, they want sequel dollars.

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