08.07.09 BARBARELLA IS SERIOUS BUSINESS
Robert Rodriguez dropped out as the director of the Barbarella remake a while back, but now it’s going forward again — with the guy who did The Ugly Truth. Yay, I hope she’ll have vibrating underwear! Also, this version is going to be DEADLY SERIOUS. IRONY CANNOT SURVIVE IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE.
Joe Gazzam [if this were my name I would legally add an exclamation point. Gazzam! Gazzam! -Ed.] has been tapped to write the screenplay centering on the character that was immortalized by Jane Fonda in the 1968 original.
“Barbarella” centers on a female mercenary who roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality. The character debuted in 1962 and was known for her sexual escapades [sexy sexcapades, if you will]. There also was a musical produced in 2004.
The new take on the iconic character will not be campy, though it will keep the sexuality; there will be seductions, but the focus will be on the adventure. [THR]
No camp, you say? I hear Michelle Rodriguez is available. GRRR, HARDCORE SPACE LATINA! With soundtrack by Papa Roach.
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BARBARELLA IS SERIOUS BUSINESS
GRRR, HARDCORE SPACE LATINA! With soundtrack by Papa Roach.
You forgot RECORD SCRATCH!!!!
As long as there’s no camp, Barbara Streisand is available.
Dammit, I was hoping for Space Camp (II).
As long as they can guarantee no vamp, I’ll check it out. I couldn’t bear to see Robert Patrick in a leather leotard.
When Billy Batson shouts “Gazzam!”, a lightning bolt comes down from the heavens and fricasees him.
What? It’s fucking lightning.
“Barbarella” centers on a female mercenary who roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality.
In Barbarella, Hooker kills you!
Robert Patrick in a leather leotard.
Or Pattingson either.
It doesn’t take a navagatrix to find the bulge in my pants for The Ugly Truth In Space.
And playing Duran Duran… Duran Duran !
Most of our fathers are probably Fonda the original. (Ahh! The Corner is sucking me in!)
fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality
Wasn’t this Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan?
My Girlfriend uses the Vacuum of Space every other month.
I’ve been known as a “Hand Romeo” too.
I’d rather watch the sexy escapades of a space elephant, Babarella.
As long as Channing Tatum plays Pygar, I’m in.
They may not be going for camp, but I don’t think they’ll be able to avoid tongue-in-cheek.
She can fight all she wants - she still makes half the salary Flash Gordon is fetching.
So I expect this to be somewhere between ‘Flesh Gordon’ and ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ for sexiness.
The good news is that the bar is set as low as ‘Barb Wire’ or ‘Catwoman’. The bad news is that those are going to be hard to live up to for this concept.
They could get Sarah Jessica Parker and call it Barbaroella.
Mexicans in cargo space in more believable.
Nice Donk. Very nice.
Fuck Jane Fonda. I wouldn’t cross the street to watch her slit her wrists
Barbarella was about tits. That is all.
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