Sunday, January 23, 2011

Isn't It About Time That This Movie Got Remade?



With Christina Hendricks in the lead?







17 comments:

M. D. Jackson said...

Oh, Hells, yeah!

We should start a grassroots movement -- CH for Barbarella!

How do you start a grassroots movement?

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Kal said...

I have no idea. I am the big idea guy, the high concept guy...I require the genius of others to bring my idea to fruition...and this is a GREAT casting idea. Just the thing she needs in her post 'Man Men' days.

M. D. Jackson said...

It's a genius casting idea! (although I don't know why my computer decided I needed to say it three times)

D.I. Felipe González said...

I don't think so. I'm not a big fan of remakes nor reboots (whith very few exceptions).

Kal said...

You were always going to be a tough sell anyways.

D.I. Felipe González said...

I'm a tough sell. But my guess is that they sold it easily to you because the new Barbarella might be a cute redhead.

Kal said...

I have a deep affection for the goofy original. John Phillip Law is one of my favorite actors since 'Golden Voyage of Sinbad' and Jane Fonda was one of those early childhood crushes. I would like to see Luc Besson make the new Barbarella because I would like to see something wacky and creative and INTERESTING like his 'FIFTH ELEMENT' was. Plus why shouldn't Christina be a bigger star? And Barberella HAS to be a cute redhead.

D.I. Felipe González said...

Difficult (but not impossible) to make an interesting movie without an original story. And Luc Besson has made bad movies too.

Doo said...

Maybe but just maybe. I'd rather see them come up with some interesting idea/story!

Kal said...

You do remember this is HOLLYWOOD were are talking about here, right?

Drake said...

Good idea..no brilliant!

Jeremy [Retro] said...

maybe not remade, but a maxim photoshoot perhaps... the original was so hippy and could never be made in a modern day...

but definitely with christina
jeremy

Matt Largo said...

Only on the condition that the French remade it. They made the last one, and Barbarella is a French character. Further, the America of 2011 is not the America of 1968. The America of 2011 is the America that brought you Sarah Palin: The Feminist. An American Barbarella remake would scuttle her free-spirited sexual adventurousness in favor of her hooking up with one chiseled-chinned dude (probably Sam Worthington or Channing Tatum) whom she virginally bangs off panel at the very end of the film.

No.

Thanks.

That said, Hendricks is a fine casting choice, though I'd love to see her in a not-directed-by-Zack-Snyder Superman film, as Miss Lane.

Kal said...

But what if some avant gaurde filmmaker makes a Barbarella film with 60s sexual attitudes with the expressed purpose of making Sarah Palin's head explode? Would you be on board then?

I do really like your idea for Christina as Lois Lane though - an overachiever who takes reckless chances for stories because she is constantly fighting the perception that she only got her job because of her magnificent breasts - although she is not afraid to use them to open doors usually closed to noisy reporters. OOOOOO that is great. All the character motivation she needs. Superman - Super Tits - another win/win.

D.I. Felipe González said...

@Matt, I couldn't have said it better.