Thread: Barbarella For The Naughties?
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13th Apr 2007, 11:04 PM #1Pip Madeley Guest
Barbarella For The Naughties?
There's plans afoot...
Producer plans Barbarella remake
A remake of the cult 1960s science-fiction film Barbarella is in development, according to reports.
Original producer Dino De Laurentiis has secured the rights to remake the 1968 film, which starred Jane Fonda.
De Laurentiis told trade paper Variety that Barbarella was the "ultimate science-fiction adventure heroine: smart, strong, funny and sexy".
Casino Royale writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis will pen the script. No release date has been announced.
The original film, based on Frenchman Jean-Claude Forest's comic-book creation, was a box-office flop but has since acquired cult status.
The rights deal, with Jean-Claude's son Julien, will also see the reissue of the first two Barbarella books, along with the publication of material previously unreleased in English.
Legendary Italian film-maker De Laurentiis has produced a string of Hollywood blockbusters including the 1976 remake of King Kong and, most recently, the Hannibal Lecter sequels Hannibal and Red Dragon.
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13th Apr 2007, 11:07 PM #2Pip Madeley Guest
Oh, and just for the record:
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13th Apr 2007, 11:14 PM #3
This was in development in the early 90's with Sherilyn Fenn in the roll.
Make way for a naval officer!
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13th Apr 2007, 11:17 PM #4Pip Madeley Guest
The sausage roll or the bacon roll?
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13th Apr 2007, 11:30 PM #5
I think I'd say one Barbarella is probably enough
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14th Apr 2007, 10:19 AM #6
I like Barbarella, but you don't have to be naughty to enjoy it!
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14th Apr 2007, 11:04 AM #7
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14th Apr 2007, 1:02 PM #8Trudi G Guest
I don't think there's anyone else who could play Barbarella, they should leave it well alone!
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14th Apr 2007, 1:06 PM #9
I have this movie on DVD but it's a film I can't sit and watch all the way through, I prefer to watch in segments and enjoy it that way. Jane Fonda is an absolute babe in it.
I agree Trudi this is another cinematic icon of the 60s - they tried The Time Machine and Planet of the Apes and failed miserably.
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14th Apr 2007, 1:10 PM #10Trudi G Guest
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14th Apr 2007, 1:58 PM #11Wayne Guest
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14th Apr 2007, 2:01 PM #12
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14th Apr 2007, 4:31 PM #13
I have it on DVD, and I've enjoyed it for what it is- a vaguely psychedelic, swinging Sixties camp fest with rude jokes and bad special effects. But it probably is shite by the standards of much cinema, yes! Is this the one with the Orgasmatron, or is that "Sleeper"???
Easy, boys...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYRGIzX-eoLast edited by Carol Baynes; 14th Apr 2007 at 4:38 PM.
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14th Apr 2007, 5:18 PM #14Captain Tancredi Guest
I think that's your fevered imagination, dear...
I can't say I've ever actually seen it, but the tricky thing with making it now would surely be keeping the same kind of spirit without the sexuality becoming crass and tacky. It needs a balance of innocence and knowingness which probably needs to be altered for today's viewers who are used to seeing everything and having everything discussed all the time.
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14th Apr 2007, 5:23 PM #15
That's a very good point, Ian - in its own way it is an oddly innocent, or at least naive, little film, and I can't see how they can really remake it now in the same way. I suppose it depends on how far you stretch the definition of 'remake'.
And I agree with the comments about the remake of "The Time Machine", it was dire.
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14th Apr 2007, 9:34 PM #16
This did indeed have the Orgasmatron, Carol - it was like some giant undulating piano keyboard that Duran Duran was playing, with a naked Barbarella writhing underneath!
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15th Apr 2007, 2:12 AM #17
Jonno appears to have studied that part well!
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15th Apr 2007, 2:26 AM #18Wayne Guest
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15th Apr 2007, 2:28 AM #19
Jonno will be click happy on that one
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15th Apr 2007, 2:30 AM #20Wayne Guest
That's one way of putting it.
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23rd May 2007, 7:56 PM #21Pip Madeley Guest
This remake is looking more and more likely this from the Beeb:
Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is to make a new film version of cult sci-fi classic Barbarella. The original film, based on Frenchman Jean-Claude Forest's comic book, starred Jane Fonda as the titular mercenary and intergalactic sex-kitten.
"The possibilities are limitless," said Rodriguez. "I love this iconic character and all that she represents."
Original producer Dino De Laurentiis is in charge of the remake, which is due to be released by Universal next year. "Barbarella is the ultimate science-fiction adventure heroine - smart, strong and sexy," De Laurentiis said in a statement. "In our vision, the future is female, and I can't wait to introduce Barbarella to a new generation of moviegoers."
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23rd May 2007, 10:14 PM #22
Hmmmm...I'm warming to this idea.
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23rd May 2007, 11:42 PM #23
I read that on Empire's site today, and couldn't get too excited about it, Rodriguez is very hit and miss (though when he hits, he really hits!), and I don't know, I guess it's a film I've not that much time for so a remake doesn't excite me too much. Unless they cast Drew Barrymore in the lead role. Then it'll probably excite me quite a lot. Ahem.
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