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Psychedelic Sex in Space: Barbarella's Coming Back!

Submitted by Aaron_Lariviere

Edited by Aaron_Lariviere

Tags: Barbarella, Robert Rodriguez, space, sci-fi



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:

Barbarella tells the story of a female mercenary who roams across the universe in a distant future, undertaking missions that require her physical fearlessness, ingenuity, and sensuality. In travels that span galaxies known and unknown, Barbarella will challenge tradition, startle the senses and take audiences on an epic adventure of discovery and wonder.


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):


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sandblaster

sandblaster

Cornwall On Hudson, NY
February 2007

JUN 02, 2007 09:41 PM

Gillionaire said:
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.



i happen to like his kid movies tooo

Aaron_Lariviere

Aaron_Lariviere

Los Angeles, CA
May 2007

JUN 02, 2007 09:49 PM

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



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.

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

JUN 02, 2007 09:50 PM

Who could they possibly cast as Durand Durand?

Deathray67

Deathray67

New York, NY
September 2004

JUN 02, 2007 10:17 PM

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! love

Aaron_Lariviere

Aaron_Lariviere

Los Angeles, CA
May 2007

JUN 02, 2007 10:27 PM

Deathray67 said:
There's no double D in duran duran, mr. Joker.


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

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

JUN 02, 2007 10:32 PM

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

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

JUN 02, 2007 10:41 PM

Deathray67 said:
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! love



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?

photoline

photoline

Edmonton, AB
January 2005

JUN 02, 2007 11:02 PM

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

DigDug

digdug

Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL

JUN 02, 2007 11:11 PM

Aaron_Lariviere said:

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



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.



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.

Vanessa

Vanessa

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

JUN 02, 2007 11:56 PM

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



There seems to be a lot of irrevelant facts that the newswire writers like to throw into their news stories.

metaVirus

metaVirus

Australia
January 2005

JUN 03, 2007 01:03 AM

Hahah! Awesome.

I wouldn't call it a crappy movie so much as a shallow excuse to put naked Jane Fonda all over the movie screen. Which is in my opinion a very honourable goal indeed. Should be more of it.

I hope Rodriguez is careful with his selection for Barbarella and doesn't go for some standard beauty.

I laughed all the way through the original, I hope that won't be the goal of RR, because films that try to do that on purpose these days tend to go too far and lose any resemblance to comedy.

PlanNine

PlanNine

Orlando, FL
January 2005

JUN 03, 2007 03:02 AM

metaVirus said:
Hahah! Awesome.

I wouldn't call it a crappy movie so much as a shallow excuse to put naked Jane Fonda all over the movie screen. Which is in my opinion a very honourable goal indeed. Should be more of it.

I hope Rodriguez is careful with his selection for Barbarella and doesn't go for some standard beauty.

I laughed all the way through the original, I hope that won't be the goal of RR, because films that try to do that on purpose these days tend to go too far and lose any resemblance to comedy.




The Original was great for 3 reasons...
It's camp factor.
Jane Fonda being sexy as hell.
The crazy french retro take on the future.

Those things can't be recreated.
He will either try to make it campy, and it will be a joke, or he'll try to make it serious (like Tim Burton did with Planet of the Apes) and it will just be miserable.

Fuck a remake, just give me a remastered original.

Aaron_Lariviere

Aaron_Lariviere

Los Angeles, CA
May 2007

JUN 03, 2007 03:26 AM

DigDug said:

Aaron_Lariviere said:

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



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.



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.



Not quite the same. If you said "Massachusetts native, Aaron Lariviere" you'd be closer. If you were in another country and were writing an article on me it would be natural to refer to me as an American writer.

leeo93

leeo93

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

JUN 03, 2007 04:21 AM

like with 99% of re-makes a total waste of time and money, its probably just an excuse for some crass marketing and casting of some starlet du jour...jesus wept someone must have an original idea these days or im i hoping too much wink

sydfloyd

sydfloyd

Tyler, TX
September 2003

JUN 03, 2007 04:31 AM

Please please please please please NO.

The charm of the original is it's cult status. It's cheesy, campy, etc. And that's what makes it so good. And what's gonna happen when it has a bigger budget and better effects. What's next? Good acting?! Please jsut leave it like it was.

And besides CQ has already done everything that a remake of Barbarella could try to do.

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