Sydney Sweeney is your new Barbarella
Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney will star in and executive produce a new Barbarella for Sony
Hailed as “the most beautiful creature” of the future, Barbarella is returning to our time. And as we all know, Barbarella is a “five-star double-rated astronavigatrix Earth girl” played by Jane Fonda in the 1968 film, but who should play her today? Why, Sydney Sweeney, of course. Per Deadline, the Euphoria star will lead and executive produce a remake (or reboot or legacy sequel or whatever they’re making these days) of Barbarella for Sony.
Based on the French comic by Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella follows the aforementioned astronavigatrix on a “wingdinger,” traveling from planet to planet “doing her thing”—ok, we’ll stop quoting the incredible trailer for the ’68 movie. But the plot of the original sees Barbarella go from planet to planet, being groovy while trying to stop the mad scientist Durand Durand from taking over the galaxy with his Positronic Ray.
Of course, what made the original so iconic was Jane Fonda dealing with
all these cheap, late 60s science fiction props, costumes, and sets.
It’s a ridiculous movie, which could make for a fun Sydney Sweeney project if handled correctly.