Are Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach working on a Ken movie?
Maybe Barbie's Dreamhouse really will turn into the Mojo Dojo Casa House after all
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Life really does imitate art. If you somehow don’t have the plot of Greta Gerwig’s summer smash hit Barbie already committed to memory, here’s a little refresher: after Ryan Gosling’s himbo-esque Ken discovers the wonders of patriarchy in the real world, he and his fellow Kens stage a coup to take over Barbie Land and infuse it with more horses, viewings of the Snyder Cut, and general masculinity.
While Ryan Gosling delivers a performance for the ages (and the Billboard charts for that matter), one prevailing complaint about Barbie was that it simply had too much Ken for a movie supposedly about Barbie and her own journey. Unfortunately for that camp of fans, Barbie Land might suffer from even more Ken-ergy in the future.
In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, Gerwig and her partner and co-writer Noah Baumbach were talking about how much extra material they had written for Ken when Baumbach seemed to slip up a little. “Don’t give it away because we might do…” he says, before stuttering out an attempt at a course correction: “Yeah, but there was a whole… just more about the Ken effect in the real world.”
When the interviewer follows up by asking if there would ever be a Ken movie, the writers laugh and say they can’t comment. “The truth is, I guess we’ll see,” Gerwig continues, with a look to her partner by her side.
Even if this wasn’t actually a slip-up on Baumbach’s part, Gerwig’s answer is far more vague than it was the last time she was asked about a potential Barbie sequel. “I feel like that at the end of every movie, like I’ll never have another idea, and everything I’ve ever wanted to do, I did,” Gerwig told the New York Times back in July. “I wouldn’t want to squash anybody else’s dream, but for me, at this moment, I’m at totally zero.”
You can see if you think Gerwig and Baumbach are alluding to a spin-off below. In the meantime, we’re still patiently waiting for Gerwig to #ReleaseTheAllanCut.
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It’s the most logical place to go. Barbie got herself figured out in the end, but Ken was last seen going off on his own vision quest.
That kent’t possibly be right.
Let’s hope not
Sweet Jesus, I hope not.
I’d love for things not to overstay their welcome.Ken got the story he needed. More than he needed, really. Barbie, as is, squeezes more from the stone of “Ken, Barbie’s accessory boyfriend” than you’d think possible. It’d be great if the whole thing went out on a high note, didn’t even try to become a franchise.
Yes because $$$.
Barbie was good. It was a dance party. Then it had a lol… mm… once every ten minutes. That’s it. Do not make a sequel. Best Equivalent: Enchanted and Disenchanted. Don’t do it.
I do not mean this as a slight to his previous work (seriously), but this is Ryan Gosling’s best performance.
“…one prevailing complaint about Barbie was that it simply had too much Ken.”I had no idea this was a complaint. I’ve been feeling so bad because I hated the Ken parts of the movie. The whole takeover attempt was too predictable. How about we just do more Barbie and no Ken.
Barbie has a dog. https://barbie.fandom.com/wiki/Dogs.Do one about her dog.
Don’t forget Skipper, Barbie’s little sister.
Barbie was a flash in the pan movie of the moment. A sequel is never going to capture that magic again, even if it’s a Barbie movie. But, Hollywood likes doing the same things over and over again until they eventually completely kill it. I expect multiple sequels.
I’m all aboard the “Barbie doesn’t need a sequel” train, but let’s face it, it made like a quadrillion dollars. Of COURSE it’s going to get a sequel, whether it’s based on Ken or not. The studio would be stupid not to at least consider any narrative path that could be taken for a sequel, even if it didn’t involve the original; we all know movie studios care way more about profit than whether a movie is actually good.