Barbenheimer is getting a movie - and it sounds terrifying

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6 Nov 2023, 15:12

Prepare yourselves - a low-budget comedy film inspired by this year’s Barbie and Oppenheimer 'Barbenheimer' cinema phenomenon is on the way.

Charles Band - a B-movie-maker with a reputation for creating similar crazy flicks since the 70s - is working on the project, entitled Barbenheimer (of course) and which has the tagline ‘D-Cup, A-Bomb’.

Completely happy to admit that the idea for his new film was been taken entirely from the success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer’s joint release and the social media frenzy which accompanied it, Band told The Hollywood Reporter: “It’s 100 percent true.

“But it’s also an opportunity to have fun with the bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe and the darkness of Oppenheimer,” he continued. 

Barbenheimer will focus on Dr Bambi J Barbenheimer, described by The Hollywood Reporter as “a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia, a world of endless summers and beach parties.”

But when her world is turned upside down by her and her boyfriend Twink Dollman's discovery of how dolls are treated by human children, Dr Barbenheimer will reportedly venture into the real world only to discover more about “humanity at its worst.”

After this revelation, she will decide to take matters into her own hands and build a nuclear bomb. “They got great looks and a super attitude! Oh, and now they’ve got the bomb,” warns the film’s official synopsis.

“It’s so silly,” Band admitted, but he also said that mixing the two films which inspired his next picture was an opportunity impossible to turn down because, in his words: “You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humour.”

Band also revealed how it was his biographer Adam Felber who originally got him to pursue the project, after Felber told him: “Everyone around the world is having fun with that notion, so we should actually make it.”

Barbenheimer the movie, with its $1 million budget (small in today’s feature film landscape), certainly sounds terrifying in more than one way! It remains to be seen when the film will be released, although interested fans might want to watch its predecessors’ 21st July release date with some trepidation.