Barbie Film Details
Barbie is a 2023 American fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, it is the first live-action Barbie film after numerous computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming television films. The film stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, who go on a journey of self-discovery following an existential crisis. The ensemble cast that includes America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren, and Will Ferrell.
A live-action Barbie film was announced in September 2009 by Universal Pictures with Laurence Mark producing. Development began in April 2014, when Sony Pictures acquired the film rights. Following multiple writer and director changes and the casting of Amy Schumer and later Anne Hathaway as Barbie, the rights transferred to Warner Bros. Pictures in October 2018. Robbie was cast in 2019, and Gerwig was announced as director and co-writer with Baumbach in 2021. The rest of the cast were announced in early 2022. Filming took place primarily at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, in England and on the Venice Beach Skatepark in Los Angeles from March to July 2022.
Barbie premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 21, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Its release, which occurred simultaneously with the biographical thriller Oppenheimer, gave rise to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon and drove audiences to go see both films as a double feature. Barbie received positive reviews for its screenplay, direction, production design, costumes, music, and performances.
STORY
PRODUCTION
Development
Development on a film based on the Barbie toy line began in September 2009, when it was announced that Mattel had signed a partnership to develop the project with Universal Pictures and with Laurence Mark as producer, but nothing came to fruition. In April 2014, Mattel teamed with Sony Pictures to produce the film, which would have Jenny Bicks writing the screenplay and Laurie Macdonald and Walter F. Parkes producing through the Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation banner they created. Filming at the time was anticipated to begin by the end of the year. In March 2015, Diablo Cody was brought onto the project to rewrite the screenplay, and Amy Pascal joined the producing team. Sony Pictures would again have rewrites done to the screenplay later that year, hiring Lindsey Beer, Bert V. Royal, and Hillary Winston to write separate drafts.
In December 2016, Amy Schumer entered negotiations to star in the title role with Winston’s screenplay; Schumer helped rewrite the script with her sister, Kim Caramele. In March 2017, Schumer exited negotiations, blaming scheduling conflicts with the planned June 2017 filming start; in 2023 she revealed she left the project due to creative differences with the film’s producers at the time. That July, Anne Hathaway was under consideration for the title role, with Sony Pictures hiring Olivia Milch to rewrite the screenplay and approaching Alethea Jones to direct as a means to interest Hathaway into signing on. Jones was attached to direct by March 2018.
CAST
- Margot Robbie as Barbie, often referred to as “Stereotypical Barbie”
- Different variations of Barbie played by:
- Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie
- Issa Rae as President Barbie
- Hari Nef as Dr. Barbie
- Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie
- Emma Mackey as Physicist Barbie
- Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie
- Ana Cruz Kayne as Judge Barbie
- Dua Lipa as the Mermaid Barbies
- Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie
- Ritu Arya as Journalist Barbie
- Marisa Abela as Princess Barbie
- Ryan Gosling as Ken
- Different variations of Ken played by:
- Kingsley Ben-Adir as Ken #1
- Simu Liu as Ken #2
- Scott Evans as Ken #3
- Ncuti Gatwa as Ken #4
- Rob Brydon as Sugar Daddy Ken
- John Cena as Kenmaid, a merman Ken
- America Ferrera as Gloria, a Mattel employee who helps Barbie in the real world
- Michael Cera as Allan
- Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria’s daughter
- Rhea Perlman as the “ghost” of Ruth Handler, the co-founder of Mattel
- Helen Mirren as the narrator
- Will Ferrell as the CEO of Mattel
- Jamie Demetriou as the CFO of Mattel
- Connor Swindells as Aaron Dinkins, a Mattel intern
- Emerald Fennell as Midge
- Ann Roth as the woman on the bench
RELEASE
July 21, 2023
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