Deadline’s Read the Screenplay sequence spotlighting the yr’s most talked-about scripts continues with Barbie, a cultural phenomenon that grew to become 2023’s highest-grossing movie at $1.45 billion worldwide. It’s additionally bought eight Oscar nominations, together with for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s screenplay, which AMPAS put within the Adapted class regardless of different our bodies — together with the Writers Guild — clocking it as Original.
Either approach, Barbie’s a doll, and the script boasts probably the most talked-about monologues in current reminiscence, delivered by America Ferrara’s Gloria within the movie.
The story facilities on Margot Robbie’s “stereotypical” Barbie, whose daily is one of the best day ever, till a glitch happens which sends her to the true world (accompanied by Ryan Gosling’s Ken). There, they uncover truths they’d by no means imagined — some laborious, some misguided and a few very poignant — earlier than heading again to Barbie Land to set issues straight.
Robbie has mentioned: “The first time I read the Barbie script, my reaction was, ‘Ah! This is so good. What a shame it will never see the light of day… Because they are never going to let us make this movie.” But Warner Bros and Mattel did allow them to make it.
At the Gotham Awards in November, Robbie famous: “Four years ago, I asked Greta to come and write Barbie with me.” Gerwig and Baumbach “took an object — a doll with no character or story — and cooked up the most ridiculous, outrageous, bananas script in an attempt to conjure back what they loved about the movies.”
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On the premiere pink carpet in July, Gerwig mentioned of Baumbach: “From the first line to the last cut, this movie is his as much as anyone’s. He is a Barbie girl. Nothing in Barbie happened without him, and nothing in Hollywood happens without writers.”
Real-life couple Gerwig and Baumbach beforehand shared writing duties on 2015’s Mistress America and 2012’s Frances Ha. Gerwig was nominated for an Oscar for her Original Screenplay for 2017’s Lady Bird and for her Adapted Screenplay with 2019’s Little Women. Baumbach has had writing nominations for 2019’s Marriage Story and 2005’s The Squid and the Whale.
Robbie and Tom Ackerley produced Barbie through their LuckyChap Entertainment shingle with Robbie Brenner, head of the Mattel Films division.
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