NEWS: Psychedelic Sex in Space: Barbarella's Coming Back!

CULTURE: Psychedelic Sex in Space: Barbarella's Coming Back!

Hot on the heels of the commercial failure slash visual assault that was “Grindhouse”, Mexican-American director Robert Rodriguez is setting his cinematic sights on the bawdy psychedelic delights of “Barbarella.” The film will be a remake of the pseudo-erotic 1968 cult classic, which in turn was based on a 1962 French comic book created by illustrious illustrator Jean-Claude Forest. As described by Film Asylum:

Ooh la la. Several key elements are in place, but here's to hoping Rodriguez does nothing to soil the memory of what some might call the greatest opening sequence ever filmed (in a crappy movie):

This could be very, very good...or it could just be another lameass 'erotic (space-)thriller'.
I shouldn't be hopeful, but I am (even if the music probably won't be as good).
But is it my imagination or does it look like her head's floating disembodied in a crystal ball in the above scene?

I'm looking forward to what Robert will do with this movie. I love his work (well, his adult crowd stuff, mind you), and I'd love to see how he'd handle sexy sci-fi.

Do we also get a new Duran Duran as well?

This has the potential to be awesome on toast. I wonder who they'll get to play Barbarella.

Grindhouse was fucking awesome.

I'm sure Barbarella will be good too.

I heard Kate Beckinsale will be Barb. She gives me boners.

Mmmmmm...Jane Fonda Workout, indeed.

thats horrible, they can't remake that movie, what are people thinking?

It'll probably be Rose McGowan, to keep this brand new b-movie franchise going.

God damn it, I was just coming here to say I hope to god he doesn't cast Rose McGowan.

Ahhh, I remember when we were all saying that about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Halcyon days, those were.

Kate would be fantastic!

they're dating




and Rodriguez needs to up and die. he's a shit director. Tarantino's falling down that route as well.

I love Barbarella!!! i wonder how b-movie he will make it if rumors are true! Rose McGowan would be cool, however i think SCARLETT JOHANSSON would do a superb job, she could definitely pull of the retro look. just remember NO GLOVE, NO LOVE

why did you describe rodriguez as a "Mexican-American director"?
that has absolutely no relevance to this story.

i was just watching Barbarella the other day and thought this should be remade.....then like two seconds later thought about what a remake would be like and thought it would be a horrible idea. Robert Rodriguez might do ot some justice....but still we just dont have that psychedelic pizazz that they did in the 60's and the sex was at that perfect level a little more and it is showtime a little less it is Oxygen. i will watch it to see what he did but Fonda will live on for me forever.

i happen to like his kid movies tooo

I don't see why describing or mentioning someone's ethnic origin should be taboo or offensive in a news story. Rodriguez began his career making films in Spanish, therefore i thought the detail was worth including.

Who could they possibly cast as Durand Durand?

There's no double D in duran duran, mr. Joker.

I can't imagine someone would be horrified that the "sanctity" of Vadim's non-vision will be sullied by having a director with genuine skill like Rodriguez remake Barbarella. The goods are there, but Vadim couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag... he's the French John Derek! He's good at making Bardot into a star and getting Jane to strip in space... but damn Barbarella sucks and i've seen it thousands of times and it's worse every time.

Selma Hayek will play Barbarella!

Actually the character in the movie does spell it with two d's....

Yeah, you're not going to out-hot Jane Fonda. Can't happen.

I thought so on the D's also. But... I had this weird memory from watching it, where there were double D's. So I went to Wiki where they spell it two ways, and I thought to myself. Shit, which one is the right way to spell it?
After some investigation:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/
Duran Duran is the band.
Durand-Durand is the villain. Back to my question though, who could play that guy?

I can see it now, Lindsay Lohan, Space Cadet...

it's not taboo or offensive, just irrelevant. kinda like if i wrote an article about you being a blogger on SG and i said "white blogger, aaron lariviere". now, if rodriguez were making a spanish language version of barbarella, then i could see mentioning it.