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Cult favorite Barbarella, the 1968 movie that made Jane Fonda and the comic book character upon which the film is based a lesbian icon, is getting the remake treatment. Again.
Cult favorite Barbarella, the 1968 movie that made Jane Fonda and the comic book character upon which the film is based a lesbian icon, is getting the remake treatment. Again.
Previously set up in May 2007 with director Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse: Death Proof, Sin City) and his then-girlfriend Rose McGowan, that version fell apart when the studio and director couldn't agree on a filming location and parted ways.
This time, writer Joe Gazzam (Straight and Narrow, Riot) has been selected to pen the screenplay with director Robert Luketic (The Ugly Truth, 21) at the helm.
Dino De Laurentiis, who produced the original, is returning with his wife, Martha, to produce the version planned for a 2010 release.
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The 1968 Barbarella revolved around the title character, played by Fonda, who is sent to the planet SoGo to retrieve Dr. Durand Durand in a bid to save the Earth. Directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), Fonda's character can only find "sexual release" through pharmaceuticals and, while on her quest to save the Earth, is seduced by a human who introduces her to sex.
The film was a critical and box office disappointment but has a huge cult following for its campy — and frequent — sex scenes, including one in which Barbarella is tortured with a piano-like device that delivers sexual pleasure in lethal doses which, in true heroine fashion, she survives.
The movie has several Hollywood influences, including Duran Duran, whose band name was based on Dr. Durand Durand, and Kylie Minogue, who re-created the zero-gravity strip tease scene from the film in her 1994 video for "Put Yourself in My Place".
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