Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling & Greta Gerwig don’t have offers for Barbie 2, which is a shock as the primary film is about to gross $1B.
With Barbie properly on the best way to grossing $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace, audiences have been questioning simply what’s occurring with Barbie 2. Nevertheless, it could be some time earlier than we hear something a couple of attainable follow-up as THR has reported that the expertise concerned (Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig) do not have offers in place for a sequel.
That is fairly uncommon for a film primarily based on a serious IP, contemplating that franchises comparable to Star Wars or Marvel sometimes have their expertise signal multi-picture offers, whether or not they wind up getting used or not. Along with starring in Barbie, Margot Robbie additionally produced the movie by way of her LuckyChap Leisure banner. Whereas she may return as a producer for Barbie 2, she has no obligation to star within the film. The identical goes for Ryan Gosling, who sometimes doesn’t do sequels anyway.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who additionally co-wrote the film with Noah Baumbach, additionally doesn’t have a deal for the sequel. THR states that Warner Bros. did attempt to begin talks with Gerwig a number of months in the past, however that her representatives determined to place it off till the film was launched. Now that Barbie is about to hit $1 billion, that will show to be one hell of a wise film. The continued WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike naturally implies that any official sequel speak should wait, however once they do, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Greta Gerwig have discovered themselves in a really enviable place.
Margot Robbie truly predicted that Barbie would gross $1 billion when she first pitched the mission, though on the time she thought she had oversold it. “I believe my pitch within the green-light assembly was the studios have prospered a lot once they’re courageous sufficient to pair an enormous concept with a visionary director,” Robbie mentioned. “After which I gave a collection of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that – just about naming something that’s been unimaginable and made a ton of cash for the studios through the years. And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve acquired Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’ And I believe I advised them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which possibly I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make, okay?!“
Barbie is at present taking part in in theaters, so you should definitely take a look at a overview from our personal Chris Bumbray and tell us what you considered the film as properly.