While the big-screen reboot of Barbarella is extinct, it appears we’ll get a new version of the cult classic on our TV screens.
Producer Martha de Laurentiis is producing a TV version of the film along with with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, who will direct the pilot. It’s being financed by Gaumont International Television. They’re also behind the upcoming Hannibal series.
Robert Rodriguez was trying to get a remake off the ground for years, with Rose McGowan playing Barbarella — an intergalactic adventurer who found herself embroiled in sexual escapades all too often. For all its randiness, Barbarella was seen as a feminist hero; as Refn calls her, “one of the ultimate counter-culture characters.”
No word yet on where the series could land or who will take on the iconic role.
Barberella on TV? Better be on a premium channel! By today’s standards the implications of sex in the original will have to be upgraded or it will look like an episode of “How I Met Your Mother”
I don’t know if this will be good or not, but does anyone else think that Duran Duran should do the theme song?
Can’t wait to see it. They’ve made so many improvements on the Orgasmatron over the last 40 years. At least in the movies I’ve seen……