Amy Schumer In Talks To Star In Sony’s Live-Action ‘Barbie’ Movie
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Amy Schumer is in early talks to star in Sony’s live-action Barbie film, sources tell Variety.
The original idea and screenplay is by Hilary Winston, although it is expected that Schumer and her sister, Kim Caramele, will rewrite.
The story is in the vein of Splash, Enchanted and Big. In it, the main character gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough and lands in a real-world adventure.
The film will open in summer 2018. Lauren Abrahams will oversee the project for Sony Pictures.
Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Amy Pascal will produce. Parkes and MacDonald initiated the original deal with Mattel in 2014.
Barbie is a global brand power house with sales of over $3 billion dollars worldwide. Barbie has taken on more than 150 roles through her more than 50 years as a doll, including princess, president, mermaid and movie star.
Schumer was most recently seen in Trainwreck, and can be seen next in Fox’s currently untitled mother-daughter comedy with Goldie Hawn. She also recently wrapped production on the DreamWorks PTSD film Thank You for Your Service with Miles Teller.
Schumer is repped by UTA, managed by Guy Oseary at Maverick and Carrie Byalick at B. Her lawyer is Isaac Dunham of Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams.
The original idea and screenplay is by Hilary Winston, although it is expected that Schumer and her sister, Kim Caramele, will rewrite.
The story is in the vein of Splash, Enchanted and Big. In it, the main character gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough and lands in a real-world adventure.
The film will open in summer 2018. Lauren Abrahams will oversee the project for Sony Pictures.
Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Amy Pascal will produce. Parkes and MacDonald initiated the original deal with Mattel in 2014.
Barbie is a global brand power house with sales of over $3 billion dollars worldwide. Barbie has taken on more than 150 roles through her more than 50 years as a doll, including princess, president, mermaid and movie star.
Schumer was most recently seen in Trainwreck, and can be seen next in Fox’s currently untitled mother-daughter comedy with Goldie Hawn. She also recently wrapped production on the DreamWorks PTSD film Thank You for Your Service with Miles Teller.
Schumer is repped by UTA, managed by Guy Oseary at Maverick and Carrie Byalick at B. Her lawyer is Isaac Dunham of Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams.
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The only live action barbie movie I will acknowledge is the one with Tyra banks.
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LMAO!!!!
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since when is barbie chubby???
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they are going too far now
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If they were doin live action of the Muppets shed be a shoe in for the role of miss piggy..
i dont give a ? ... but why is their a barbie movie anyway. -
Is she gonna play the car?
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Smh.... how did I know that would be the storyline b4 clicking lol... pass
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come on barbie, let's go party!
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I quit.
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Why is this even a topic? >_>
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She'll be Barbie afterplaymaker88 wrote: »If they were doin live action of the Muppets shed be a shoe in for the role of miss piggy..
i dont give a ? ... but why is their a barbie movie anyway.
If Barbie and Miss Piggy had a baby....
? it...if Miss Piggy and Miss Piggy had a baby -
She'd make a better Cabbage Patch Kid... or Troll doll...
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Her face looks like a little toe.
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Spoiler that ? next time
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This chick is annoy af to me.. n she doesn't even fit the role of barbie.. smmfh is Barbie really that big still?
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Yuck... how this ? got a dad-? ? Spoiler that ? b
Long torso beer belly havin unfunny ass ? -
Why?
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This chick is annoy af to me.. n she doesn't even fit the role of barbie.. smmfh is Barbie really that big still?
Barbie will run out of style when Transformers does. Never. I have a 6 year old at home who lives for that ? . So do her friends. I will never take her to see this movie however.
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PanchoYoSancho wrote: »She'll be Barbie afterplaymaker88 wrote: »If they were doin live action of the Muppets shed be a shoe in for the role of miss piggy..
i dont give a ? ... but why is their a barbie movie anyway.
If Barbie and Miss Piggy had a baby....
? it...if Miss Piggy and Miss Piggy had a baby
Dam is this ? walking on water -
The only way this story is plausible and could work on screen is as follows:
Premise
Following the rise of instagram and other social media outlets, Barbie has too much competition from insta-thots and can't keep up with the times. She has no monopoly on being a basic plastic ? and BABs took her blueprint and went HAM. As a result, her agent drops her, paparazzi ain't checking for and her dolls ain't shifting off shelves like it used to.
Barbie has in effect become a has-been and like most has-beens she's stopped working out (eating ice-cream all day whilst trolling/hating on other girls on the come-up pics), stopped her beauty regime and now looks like Amy Schumer.
Then the rest of the story becomes a Bridget Jones movie, cue in some "cute guy" that shouldn't even look Amy's way but somehow ends up with her in the end.
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If Chuck Schumer ever wants me to vote democrat ever again he should stop this immediately.
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Valentinez A. Kaiser wrote: »The only way this story is plausible and could work on screen is as follows:
Premise
Following the rise of instagram and other social media outlets, Barbie has too much competition from insta-thots and can't keep up with the times. She has no monopoly on being a basic plastic ? and BABs took her blueprint and went HAM. As a result, her agent drops her, paparazzi ain't checking for and her dolls ain't shifting off shelves like it used to.
Barbie has in effect become a has-been and like most has-beens she's stopped working out (eating ice-cream all day whilst trolling/hating on other girls on the come-up pics), stopped her beauty regime and now looks like Amy Schumer.
Then the rest of the story becomes a Bridget Jones movie, cue in some "cute guy" that shouldn't even look Amy's way but somehow ends up with her in the end.
You wrote too much bruh -
PanchoYoSancho wrote: »She'll be Barbie afterplaymaker88 wrote: »If they were doin live action of the Muppets shed be a shoe in for the role of miss piggy..
i dont give a ? ... but why is their a barbie movie anyway.
If Barbie and Miss Piggy had a baby....
? it...if Miss Piggy and Miss Piggy had a baby
Yuck she built like Will Farrell -
? built like a krabby patty.
