Barbie, Mattel’s iconic doll franchise, and science fiction are hardly ever uttered in the identical breath. However because of a intelligent new trailer for subsequent summer season’s $100 million live-action “Barbie” film, these two worlds have simply collided.
Warner Bros. Footage lately released the first “Barbie” teaser (opens in new tab) and it is undoubtedly “The Final Journey” with a spot-on homage to the well-known Daybreak of Man opening from director Stanley Kubrick’s immortal 1968 basic, “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
As an alternative of a band of prehistoric apes having a revelatory second within the presence of a mysterious black monolith, younger ladies enjoying with old school child dolls are spurred to desert their classic toys when a towering, statuesque Barbie (Margot Robbie) seems in excessive heels and a showering go well with.
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It is a enjoyable nod to Kubrick’s existential masterpiece and the movie’s inciting incident depicting the evolutionary nudge of clever apes because the dramatic strains of Strauss’ “Additionally Sprach Zarathustra” rise to a crescendo.
This time as an alternative of a tribe of hominids, it is composed with an impressed child smashing her doll and rebelliously tossing it into the air ala Moonwatcher and his animal bone that transitioned right into a million-year reduce to an orbiting weapons platform.
This is not the primary time Barbie has encountered outer space earlier than as a Barbie astronaut doll was created in 1965 throughout NASA’s Gemini program, then in 2019 Mattel paid tribute to the primary American lady in space with a Sally Ride doll as a part of their ‘Barbie Inspiring Girls Collection,” and a pair of Mattel’s House Discovery dolls took an orbital journey to the ISS earlier this 12 months in conjunction with the “Mission DreamStar” STEM outreach program. Mattel has additionally created Barbie dolls of European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.
Directed by Greta Gerwig, Warner Bros.’ “Barbie” stars Robbie because the well-known Mattel doll and Ryan Gosling as her tanned boyfriend Ken in a candy-colored kingdom.
Early plot particulars have revealed that when Ken and Barbie depart their idyllic residence for the true world, Mattel CEO (Will Ferrell) chases after them to get the plastic pair again to pink-painted Barbieland.
“Barbie” arrives in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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