Sydney Sweeney’s romcom with Glen Powell raked in than , the Sony movie starring Dakota Johnson talking about her mom researching spiders in the Amazon or something to that effect. In a smaller role, Sweeney portrayed , and that box-office clunker will likely lead nowhere else in Sony’s Marvel plan, but the film did lay the ground for business relationships that Sweeney has parlayed into Sony’s remake of . The 1968 original movie, of course, starred Jane Fonda with massive hair and skimpy outfits in a campy-yet-sexy sci-fi story.
Over a decade ago, Rose McGowan was once attached in a version that would have been directed by Robert Rodriguez, but those possibilities collapsed sometime shortly after and the rest of didn’t fare so well at the box office. Since we already know that Sydney can do at the same time, this remake is likely in the best hands possible. What else is in the works? Plot Word broke in October 2022 of Sweeney (via Deadline) along with an executive producer spot, and although the film hadn’t yet secured writers or a director, the star wasted little time in Instagramming her enthusiasm with a from the original: “time to save the universe.
” The original Paramount Pictures film based upon the French comic book by Jean-Claude Forest’s French comic and was set (according to a synopsis from yesteryear) on “the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella makes a forced landing while travelling through space. She acts like a female James Bond.