Subject: [milliways-L] "Barbarella" Update Screenwriter John August, who wrote two Barbarella spec scripts for producer/star Drew Barrymore, told SCI FI Wire that the project is back on after a hiatus of two years. "I went through two drafts about two years ago, between the first Charlie's [Angels] and the second Charlie's," August said in an interview. "I got busy, and then Drew got busy, and Laura Ziskin, the other producer, got busy. And we all went our separate ways. So we're just now coming back together and figuring out what we have and what kind of movie we want to make."
August said that he's a fan of the character. "I think Barbarella is a great trippy character, and the story that we're really telling is kind of a fable itself," he said. "This is unbelievably pretentious, but it's sort of like Candide in space, where you have this very naive character who bumbles through everything and ends up changing the world by accident." August added that this Barbarella will not resemble Roger Vadim's 1968 movie, which starred Jane Fonda. Rather, it will be based on the original French comic books. "We don't have the rights to the original Barbarella [film]," August said. "So not only is it not like the original Barbarella, it's deliberately and legally not very much like the original Barbarella, because we don't have the rights to that movie. [The comics are] Barbarella and the Mirror of Storms and I don't even remember [the other]. What's weird is both those comic books are only in French, so I've only read the translations. You can just say they're based on two untranslated French comic books of Barbarella." Barrymore is still attached to star. ________________________________ Changes to your subscription (unsubs, nomail, digest) can be made by going to http://sandboxmail.net/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net
