Check a gallery of the new character postershere.
View the newBarbietrailer above and read more about the project below.
With an atmospheric tone and an earth-toned palette, it evokes Stanley Kubricks2001: A Space Odyssey.
(The reference is yet another coy nod, to Mirrens role inDocumentary Now!)
But the dolls were always and forever …baby dolls.
Cue the Richard Strauss, and the giant-sized Barbie, standing in for the monolith in Kubricks early-man sequence.
Barbie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, will hit theaters July 21.
Its the first major film production during Mattels current corporate era under CEO Ynon Kreiz.
Robbie is producing the film under her LuckyChap Entertainment production banner along with LuckyChaps Tom Ackerley.
Robbie Brenner also will produce through Mattel, as will David Heyman via Heyday Films.
LuckyChaps Josey McNamara and Mattels Kreiz are executive producers.
On a podcast last month, Gerwig confessed to being daunted by taking on the project.
It felt like vertigo starting to write it.
Like, where do you even begin?
What would be the story?
