The making of the “Barbie” movie

Babe wake up, the new Barbie trailer just dropped!

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00:00The trailer for one of this year's most anticipated films just dropped,

00:03so we need to talk about the long winding road that led to Barbie.

00:07Greta Gerwig's live action adaptation is hitting theaters this summer and has actually been a long

00:11time in the making. In 2014, Mattel and Sony Pictures announced they were making a Barbie

00:16feature film, written by Sex and the City screenwriter Jenny Bix. One year later, Juno

00:20and Jennifer's body screenwriter Diablo Cody was instead asked to write the project, but a script

00:25ultimately never came to fruition. In 2017, it was announced that Amy Schumer would play Barbie,

00:29but she ended up dropping out of the project due to creative differences. Anne Hathaway was then

00:34briefly announced as a replacement, but also soon departed from the film. By 2018, the movie entered

00:39a standstill, with it ultimately being handed over to Warner Brothers and with Margot Robbie

00:43set to star as the final Barbie. In 2019, Greta Gerwig signed on to co-write the script with

00:48Noah Baumbach, and later in 2021, it was announced that she would direct it as well. That same year,

00:53Ryan Gosling was announced as Ken, joining a stacked lineup with Issa Rae, Simu Liu,

00:57Dua Lipa, and more. Now nearly nine years later, we have the first official trailer,

01:01which tells the tale of Barbie's expulsion from Barbieland and her journey through the real world.

01:06Barbie will make its long-awaited debut in theaters July 21st.