The first teaser trailer for Margot Robbie’s Barbie film is right here and it’s each bit as wonderful as you hoped it could be.
In a transparent homage to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, director and co-writer Greta Gerwig has declared that Barbie isn’t going to be something you anticipated.
The trailer is impressed by the opening scene of Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece, however replaces apes enjoying with bones with little women enjoying dolls.
A voiceover – Helen Mirren! – intones, “Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls, but the dolls have always and forever been baby dolls, until…”
The shot shifts to a shadowed mass showing, backlit by the solar. Not fairly a monolith, however simply as iconic in different methods, revealed to be Barbie, standing tall and with the Robbie’s distinct smile and wink.
After the titles, there are scenes which reveal Barbie’s hyper-coloured visible palette – pink, pink and extra pink – whereas there are additionally glimpses of Ryan Gosling, Sex Education and Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa, Insecure’s Issa Rae, Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu and Peaky Blinders’ Kingsley Ben-Adir.
Barbie is without doubt one of the most-anticipated films of 2023, boasting not simply its all-star forged however the dream filmmaking crew of real-life companions and inventive collaborators Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
Gerwig and Baumbach signed on in 2019 to put in writing the screenplay and Gerwig was confirmed in 2021 to direct.
Little has been revealed of its plot, solely that it could embody varied variations of Barbies and Kens.
The forged additionally contains Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, Emma Mackey, Emerald Fennell and Michael Cera.
When the manufacturing was photographed filming in California earlier this yr, the blindingly brilliant outfits set the web ablaze. Stylewatchers and tastemakers have predicted “Barbiecore” could be a pattern by mid-year when the movie is launched.
Robbie revealed to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that she was “mortified” by the general public’s response to the set images.
“I can’t tell you how mortified we were, by the way,” Robbie stated. “We look like laughing and having fun, but we’re dying on the inside. Dying. I was like, ‘this is the most humiliating moment of my life’.”
Robbie stated having to movie exterior scenes in Los Angeles was all the time going to draw consideration – they didn’t precisely mix in – however she was shocked by the extent it reached.
“I knew we had some exteriors to shoot in LA. I knew once you were doing exteriors, you’re gonna get papped. There’s probably going to be a little crowd of people who are going to take notice because, you know, we stand out a little bit in those outfits.
“So I knew there was going to be a little bit of attention and probably some photos would get out there, but not like it did.
“It was like mad. It was like hundreds of people watching all the time.”
Gerwig is greatest identified for steering movies Lady Bird and Little Women. She grew to become solely the fifth lady ever to be nominated for a Directing Oscar in 2017 for Lady Bird, and has additionally been nominated twice within the screenplay classes.
Baumbach has made The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story, The Meyerowitz Stories and Frances Ha. His newest movie White Noise, which stars Gerwig and Adam Driver, is presently in cinemas now and on Netflix from later this month.
Barbie will probably be in cinemas on July 20, 2023.
