Comedy "Barbenheimer" in planning
The successful B-movie icon Charles Band is working on the low-budget comedy "Barbenheimer". This was reported by "The Hollywood Reporter". Band is making 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 cash in 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 movies 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.
Scientist doll at beach parties
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 neon-colored billion-dollar megahit.
But Dr. Barbenheimer, taking Christopher Nolan's decidedly less pink script one step further, is enraged by the brutal treatment the dolls receive at the hands of human children and ventures into the real world, where she encounters humanity at its worst and decides to build a giant nuclear bomb to destroy them all, according to the Hollywood Reporter synopsis.
"We need a little humor in the year 2024," explains Charles Band. And since everything moves 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 budget of just under one million dollars excludes both Gerwig and "Barbie" star Margot Robbie, the film is one of Band's more expensive films.
Filming on "Barbenheimer" is expected to begin next year.
- The upcoming low-budget comedy "Barbenheimer" by Charles Band, inspired by the success of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer," promises a blend of entertainment and dark comedy, as depicted in Cinema.
- Given the excitement surrounding the release of "Barbenheimer," fans of Charles Band's cinematic style and fans of the movie genre in general are looking forward to an enjoyable Movie experience this coming year.
Source: www.ntv.de
