Don’t anticipate a kaleidoscope of coloration from the brand new teaser for Warner Bros’ upcoming Barbie film.
As a substitute, the majority of the 1-minute teaser (watch it ABOVE) takes the titular doll again into historical past — method again. With an atmospheric tone and an earth-toned palette, it evokes Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Area Odyssey. Full with the booming orchestrations of “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” the footage exhibits a building-sized Margot Robbie rising over the prehistoric panorama.
“For the reason that starting of time, because the first little woman ever existed, there have been dolls,” Helen Mirren intones on the voiceover. (The reference is yet one more coy nod, to Mirren’s position in Documentary Now!) “However the dolls had been all the time and eternally … child dolls. Till ….”
Cue the Richard Strauss, and the giant-sized Barbie, standing in for the monolith in Kubrick’s early-man sequence. Just like the apes smashing bones in 2001, the little ladies within the teaser start to interrupt up the “child dolls” in sluggish movement. Barbie winks on the digital camera, and the clip closes with a vanishing few seconds of smash cuts teasing the Day-Glo spectacle to return, together with an amusing glimpse of Ryan Gosling as Ken.
Barbie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, will hit theaters July 21, 2023. It’s the primary main movie manufacturing throughout Mattel’s present company period beneath CEO Ynon Kreiz.
Robbie is producing the movie beneath her LuckyChap Leisure manufacturing banner together with LuckyChap’s Tom Ackerley. Robbie Brenner additionally will produce by way of Mattel, as will David Heyman by way of Heyday Movies. LuckyChap’s Josey McNamara and Mattel’s Kreiz are govt producers.
On a podcast final month, Gerwig confessed to being daunted by taking over the challenge.
“It was terrifying. I believe there’s one thing about ranging from that place the place it’s like, ‘Properly, something is feasible,’” Gerwig advised singer-songwriter Dua Lipa in an episode of her podcast At Your Service. “It felt like vertigo beginning to write it. Like, the place do you even start? What could be the story?”
Gerwig went on to say that she took the movie on given the sense that the “terror” it was bringing upon her was of the “actually fascinating” selection — that the movie would problem her in ways in which could be productive.
