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Diablo Cody is addressing her botched “Barbie” script for Sony five years after the fact.
The Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter was attached to pen the screenplay for a meta “Barbie” movie before exiting in 2018. Cody was enlisted to re-write former “Sex and the City” writer Jenny Bicks’ 2014 Sony script. Amy Schumer was initially cast in the lead role prior to also parting ways with the project. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach took over the film in 2019 after it moved to Warner Bros.
Cody infamously never turned in a script due to creative differences with the studio, as the “Jennifer’s Body” scribe told GQ.
“I think I know why I shit the bed: When I was first hired for this, I don’t think the culture had not embraced the femme or the bimbo as valid feminist archetypes yet,” Cody said. “If you look up ‘Barbie’ on TikTok you’ll find this...
The Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter was attached to pen the screenplay for a meta “Barbie” movie before exiting in 2018. Cody was enlisted to re-write former “Sex and the City” writer Jenny Bicks’ 2014 Sony script. Amy Schumer was initially cast in the lead role prior to also parting ways with the project. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach took over the film in 2019 after it moved to Warner Bros.
Cody infamously never turned in a script due to creative differences with the studio, as the “Jennifer’s Body” scribe told GQ.
“I think I know why I shit the bed: When I was first hired for this, I don’t think the culture had not embraced the femme or the bimbo as valid feminist archetypes yet,” Cody said. “If you look up ‘Barbie’ on TikTok you’ll find this...
- 7/7/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
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