Rodriguez Speaks Out on 'Barbarella' Kerfuffle
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You might have caught the news last week that the Barbarella remake was in trouble because Universal reportedly wasn't going to spend $100 million on a sci-fi, sexy-time romp with Rose McGowan. Sources claimed that Robert Rodriguez wasn't listening to everyone who warned him that Rose couldn't pull it off. IESB then went to Rodriguez about this whole mess, and he says the problem has always been the budget, and not the casting. He even says that the project might go back to Universal, and that they'll know in the next week. It should, because there's absolutely no reason that RR can't make this picture super cheap -- he's the king of making little money work.Of course, I'm not witnessing this all first-hand, but it seems to me like McGowan has become the scapegoat for money issues. Why say Universal thinks the price is too steep when you can blame it all on the sinister woman tugging at the strings behind the scenes? Yawn. We're talking about a goofy cult classic here! This isn't some big production where McGowan's casting is completely surprising. If Rodriguez had cast her in a serious period piece about Eleanor Roosevelt, then I'd get it. Heck, I'd be on the whipped bandwagon myself, scheming up ways to bring Rodriguez to his senses (and I'm a McGowan fan), but this is super space babe Barbarella, and there's nothing irrational about thinking Rose should play her. McGowan is at her best when she's campy, sexy, and tough, so until Robert tries to cast her in something else, why blame the relationship?
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10-23-2007 @ 8:30PM
EJ is an Idjit said...
Like most idiots blogging about film you know nothing about how and why they are made. This is a REAL movie that will cost $70- 80 million dollars. In order to greenlight that the studio needs actors plural who put asses in seats. Rose put ZERO asses in seats for Grindhouse. She is a so so actress who means crap all at the box office. So YES, it is her fault for dragging this guy away from his five kids and producer wife and on top of it trying to get him to put her lame ass in his popcorn flicks. On top of that, she freaking got the Meg Ryan/Joker surgery so she isn't even watchable anymore. You guys are pretty damn gullible.
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10-23-2007 @ 8:51PM
cyenu said...
Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter anyone? Leave the guy alone.
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10-24-2007 @ 11:42AM
E said...
What the hell!? Rose McGowan looks great after her surgery, I don't know what you are talking about. (Meg Ryan under the other hand is scary). Don't blame the Grindhouse failure on Rose. The problem was most people didn't want to sit through a 4 hour movie (I went to see it - but I'm a huge Tarantino fan). Rose McGowan was perfectly cast in Grindhouse and I think she is perfectly cast for Barberella. She is hot and she has a very funny and sarcastic thing going on. [Although some of the dialogue in Death Proof was too much for me, those driving sequences were awesome]
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