Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Last Night in Soho) is in talks to direct a new Barbarella movie starring Sydney Sweeney, according to Deadline.
Jane Goldman (X-Men, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Honey Goldman are in talks to write the screenplay alongside Wright for Sony Pictures.
Deadline notes in their exclusive report today, “The film is still in development given Sweeney’s busy schedule and Wright deep in prep on his The Running Man reboot with Glen Powell starring, so the project will not be next up for either talent.”
Barbarella began as a French comic book series from creator Jean-Claude Forest, which was later adapted in 1968 as a feature film starring Jane Fonda. In Barbarella (1968), “In the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.”





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