Vi kommer troligtvis att få vänta en stund innan Robert Rodriguez version av Barbarella kommer. Det verkar som om Universal lämnat projektet.
Tydligen har Universal fått kalla fötter tack vare två saker som skett inom projektet. Robert Rodgriguez budgetberäkningar har svällt och han vill ha Rose McGowan i huvudrollen.
Rodriguez berättar för IGN att Universal är beredda att arbeta med filmen om budgeten på $60 miljoner hålls. Men Robert vill göra filmen efter den beräkning han fått till, $82 miljoner.
According to an unnamed source for The New York Observer, ”It’s sort of embarrassing for everyone involved. … No one thinks Rose can carry the movie, but Robert won’t listen.” The paper adds that producer Dino De Laurentiis ”wants to back Robert and his vision. But Robert’s vision is blurred by Rose.” The studio reportedly wants a bigger name star such as Halle Berry or Jessica Alba.
Rodriguez disputes this claim, saying they were ”blown over” by McGowan’s audition and citing the project’s ballooning budget as the reason for Universal’s pullout. ”Universal had initially signed on for $60 million,” Rodriguez explained, ”but then when we were done with the script it wound up at closer to $82 million, and they had just financed a Will Ferrell movie [Land of the Lost] that was a $130 million and they even cut that down to $100 million.”
[Via Rotten Tomatoes]
