Barbarella is one of the grooviest sci-fi spectacles to survive from the 1960s. Starring future Oscar winner Jane Fonda as the title character, whom the trailer describes as “five-star double-rated astronavigatrix Earth girl,” the movie follows Barbarella as she goes from planet to planet trying to stop the mad scientist Durand Durand from taking over the galaxy. Is it a sci-fi epic? Is it an acid trip? Is it softcore? You just kind of have to decide for yourself:
“See Barbarella do her thing in the wild excessive machine.” God, this movie is so weird.
Anyway, a few people have tried to remake Barbarella over the years, but nothing’s gotten off the ground. Now, per Deadline, there’s a new version coming executive produced and starring Sydney Sweeney, who plays Cassie in HBO’s Euphoria. Hopefully it’s as much of “a real wingdinger” as the first one.
Pete Davidson and Michelle Yeoh will be in the next Transformers movie
Twenty years after Barbarella, a whole new generation of sci-fi fans would be taken with the Transformers cartoons. And over 30 years after that, the Transformers movies are still going strong. The next one, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback as our humans of the moment. Peter Cullen will return as Optimus Prime, the robot who turns into a semi-truck.
Now, director Steven Caple Jr. brings us news of some of the other actors playing robots in disguise. Former Saturday Night Live player Pete Davidson is playing Mirage, an Autobot who can turn into a Porsche (although according to The A.V. Club he turned into a Formula 1 race car in the original cartoon; vroom vroom). Meanwhile, Everything Everywhere All At Once star Michelle Yeoh is Airazor the Maximal, a robot who turns into a bird. Ca-caw!
The movie also features Maximals, who are good robots who turn into animals, as well as Terrorcons, who sound like they suck. The movie is due out in 2023.
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