Ryan Gosling Is the Ken to Margot Robbie’s Barbie

What a bizarre, bizarre race to the underside of the branded-IP media universe barrel we discover ourselves in.

Deadline experiences that Mattel’s plans to deliver the long-lasting doll—beneath the stewardship of Margot Robbie within the title position and Greta Gerwig as director—to the large display screen as soon as extra together with her personal movie at Warner Bros. has simply added a significant “figure” (haha, oh lord, kill me now). The commerce experiences that Ryan Gosling has entered ultimate negotiations to play bachelor, occasional paramour, and proprietor of many units of purchasable fabulous garments—and occasional additional finest male buddy for when Barbie hangs together with her gal buddies—Ken. Deadline experiences that Gosling was Gerwig and Robbie’s solely consideration for the important position within the Barbie prolonged universe, however the actor had beforehand handed on becoming a member of the movie… till manufacturing itself stalled sufficient that Gosling has returned to negotiations after clearing his schedule.

It’s a bizarre story, for a bizarre casting course of, for a bizarre film, however I assume while you’re already making a live-action Barbie film and faucet mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig to direct (and co-write, alongside Marriage Story’s Noah Baumbach) it’s best to in all probability count on bizarre at this level. Gosling’s becoming a member of of the solid would deliver the movie mission near getting a inexperienced mild, forward of anticipated taking pictures someday in early 2022. Details are being saved beneath a veritable field of Barbie’s different profession outfits proper now, however suffice to say, no matter Gosling’s tackle the smooth-crotched object of Barbie’s plastic affections seems to be… it’s in all probability gonna be even weirder than Toy Story 3‘s model of the characters, to say the least.

We’ll deliver you extra on the inevitable absurdity of the Barbie film as and once we study it.

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