• Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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    1 month ago

    I wish they would say why they’re “not thrilled”. Barbie, as a franchise, has a history of animated movies long before the live-action was a thing. I’m more surprised its taken this long, and hasn’t been a flood of “We’re redoing Barbie and the Three Musketeers with slightly better animation!” while the iron was hot.

    • gila
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      191 month ago

      There has been, Netflix have done a handful of different Barbie series with multiple seasons over the last decade. Doesn’t seem like the next one is substantially changing direction resultant from the film. Feels like the premise for this article was to just reaction-bait its stars.

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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        21 month ago

        Ah, so that’s where they went. Makes sense. Probably a better market than the old “Direct-to-Video” releases they did.

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    201 month ago

    They should just get with Larian and do a Barbie RPG instead

      • atocci
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        71 month ago

        Yeah gosh I remember these movies being on all the time as a child because my sister loved them. I still find myself quoting “lefting, leftaroo” on a pretty regular basis.

  • downpunxx
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    101 month ago

    It’s fun when the talent think they own a piece of intellectual and trademarked property

    • @KnitWit
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      91 month ago

      Haha, exactly. Surprised it isn’t a live action ‘Barbie 2: Return to Kenland’ because marketing says a male lead polls better.

  • Korthrun
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    1 month ago

    Well of course not, they want as many of the sequel dollars as they can possibly get. What, they’re to share the hype with filthy animators?!