“There have been dolls since the dawn of time.” First Promising Barbie Teaser With Margot Robbie

Warner Bros. released the official trailer barbiethe film, starring the famous Mattel doll, was released in 1959 with its first breakout roles, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, aka Barbie and Ken.

While plot details remain under wraps, we do know, however, that the plastic couple will be stuck in the real world, and that the world’s most famous doll will have to face the challenge of being a flesh-and-blood woman. ‘bone. A script that hangs its share of comic situations in these first rather promising images.

The trailer thus mocks the cult 2001: A Space Odyssey. It opens on a desert landscape and a voiceover announces. “Since the dawn of time, since the first little girl, there have been dolls,” before Stanley Kubrick’s original score plays.

Then a few meters tall Margot Robbie appears there like a smiling icon, wearing a black and white striped swimsuit, carmine lipstick and gold earrings. She slowly slides her white sunglasses down her nose and winks at the camera in front of mesmerized little girls quickly getting rid of their old, discarded and broken dolls.

The trailer immediately cuts to Margot Robbie reaching out from her Barbie Dreamhouse. Ryan Gosling can also be seen in a black-rimmed ensemble, surrounded by a group of friends who play sports.

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The cast also includes Will Ferrell, Emma Mackie, Conor Swindells, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera and Simu Liu. From a screenplay by director Greta Gerwig, the new face of American alternative cinema, written with her partner Noah Baumbach (Marriage history), barbie is a co-production of Mattel Films, Heyday Films and LuckyChap Entertainment.

The film is slated to be followed by another Mattel adaptation, a version of Polly Pocket written and directed by Lena Dunham and starring Lily Collins.

barbie in theaters in July 2023.