Sydney Sweeney has been tapped to star in and executive produce a Barbarella reboot, giving new life to Jean-Claude Forest’s comic series that spawned a 1968 movie with Jane Fonda.
Deadline reported that Sweeney had partnered up with Sony Pictures again for the new feature film that would see her stepping into the iconic Barbarella role made famous by Fonda. The project is reportedly in the very early stages of development, with no writer or director attached to the new version of the sci-fi flick as of right now.
Sweeney confirmed her involvement in the project on Instagram by posting an image of the original artwork for the 1968 movie that positions its titular space heroine at the center of the action. The Emmy-nominated star of Euphoria and The White Lotus also included a screenshotted image of the news along with the caption, “time to save the universe.”
Barbarella is Sweeney’s latest collaboration with Sony Pictures, having already signed up to star alongside Dakota Johnson in the Spider-Man spinoff Madame Web. She is also said to be gearing up to star in and produce the dystopian thriller The Registration after Sony reportedly acquired the rights to adapt the book by Madison Lawson.
Roger Vadim’s original adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s comic starred Fonda as an outer space special agent tasked with finding a missing scientist. Along the way she fights and/or has sex with just about everybody. The design of Barbarella is distinctive and bizarre, which arguably makes it one of the Best Space Opera Movies (outside of Star Wars and Star Trek).
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