Euphoria breakout star Sydney Sweeney is set to star in a new Barbarella reboot movie as the title character. originally performed by Jane Fonda.
While little has been revealed about the remake, and whether the story and style will differ from the original, Fonda was skeptical and expressed concern about what it would look like, when asked what she thought about it.
‘I try not. Because I’m worried about what it’s going to be,” said the 85-year-old longtime protagonist, the hollywood reporter, before hinting that she had some ideas of her own on how to film Barbarella, but was met with a deaf ear by the producer.
Barbarella remake: Jane Fonda, 85, was skeptical, expressing “concern” about what the new version of Barbarella starring Sydney Sweeney might look like, when asked what she thought in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
‘I had an idea how to do that [original producer] Dino De Laurentiis, when he was still alive, he didn’t listen,” Fonda explained during the THR interview.
The actress, who underwent brutal chemotherapy following her non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis last year, would confess that Barbarella “could have been a truly feminist film.”
Fonda starred in a 1968 adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s French comic book series by director Roger Vadim, to whom Fonda was married at the time that ultimately ended in divorce in 1973.
Something different: Fonda said that Barbarella, a 1968 adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s French comic book series by director Roger Vadim, “could have been a truly feminist film.”
Sci-Fi Adventure: The original Barbarella features Fonda as a space traveler and United Earth government representative sent to find scientist Durand Durand, who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity.
Not much is known about this new version, but Vadim’s version of the story follows a 41st century astronaut who sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic beam threatens to bring evil back to the galaxy. according to a synopsis of IMDb and Term.
The film was not a hit with fans at the box office, but it has since become a cult classic and cemented Fonda as a bona fide sex symbol at the time.
Along with Fonda, the original Barbarella also starred John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi, and Claude Dauphin.
Fonda has offered some criticism of his film Barbarella over the years, but has come to see the version of Vadim with more sense of humor, he confessed during an interview with CBS in 2005.
Confirmation: Sweeney confirmed the news of his role in the Barbarella reboot on Instagram
News of the remake featuring Sweeney in the title role broke last October and the actress confirmed it in an Instagram post, declaring, “it’s time to save the universe,” in the caption, along with a caption. Illustrated poster from the original. movie.
An history about Deadline revealed that Sweeney will also serve as an executive producer, along with her lead role in the film.
As of yet, no official release date for Sweeney’s Barbarella reboot has been revealed yet.
As for Fonda’s health, the actress confessed that the chemotherapy treatments “really hit me hard,” but ultimately helped her cancer go into remission.
Trailer: Sweeney is best known to most fans for her role as Cassie Howard on HBO’s hit drama series Euphoria, which starred Zendaya in the title role of Rue.