Low-budget comedy “Barbenheimer”
“Barbie”-“Oppenheimer” mix planned
Margot Robbie in Barbie and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.
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“Barbenheimer” should become reality. A low-budget comedy based on “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” is planned.
The successful B-movie icon Charles Band (71) is working on the low-budget comedy “Barbenheimer”. This is reported by “The Hollywood Reporter”. Band makes no secret of the fact that his upcoming film – about a scientist doll in Dolltopia who tries to wipe out humanity with a nuclear bomb – is a shameless attempt to capitalize on the success of this summer’s box office hits, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” . “It’s 100 percent true,” he tells the industry magazine.
“But it’s also an opportunity to have fun with the bizarre marriage of these two films and the combination of Barbie’s mood and the darkness of Oppenheimer. When you bring that together, you have the opportunity to create dark humor,” explains the filmmaker, who has been making low-budget horror comedies since the early 1970s.
That’s what “Barbenheimer” is about
Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer is a brilliant scientist doll who lives with her friend Twink Dollman in Dolltopia, a world of endless summers and beach parties. So far it’s reminiscent of Greta Gerwig’s (40) neon-colored billion-dollar megahit.
But Dr. Barbenheimer, who takes Christopher Nolan’s (53) much less rose-colored script up a notch, is enraged by the brutal treatment that the dolls receive at the hands of human children and ventures into the real world, where she gets to know humanity at its worst decides to build a giant atomic bomb to destroy them all, according to the synopsis, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“We need a little humor in 2024,” explains Charles Band. And since everything happens pretty quickly in the B-movie sector, the script and a few songs are already finished. The cast and director of “Barbenheimer” will be announced soon, and although the nearly $1 million budget excludes both Gerwig and “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, 33, the film is one of Band’s more expensive films.
Filming on “Barbenheimer” is expected to begin next year.