If the concept of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig getting collectively to make a Barbie film sounded unusual at first, prepare for a probably even stranger mixture: The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri is partnering with Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya for a big-screen Barney & Friends reboot at A24.
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Edebiri is in talks to write and star in the project, which might be produced by Kaluuya’s 59% Productions for A24. The film has been within the works since 2019, with Mattel govt Kevin McKeon saying in a 2023 interview that he imagined the film “leaning into the millennial angst of the property slightly than fine-tuning this for youths,” including, “it’ll deal with a number of the trials and tribulations of being thirtysomething, rising up with Barney — simply the extent of disenchantment throughout the era.”
For many who didn’t develop up with Barney, the purple dinosaur who loves mates and greens first appeared in a collection of video releases in 1988 below the title Barney & The Yard Gang, earlier than transferring to public tv in 1992 as Barney & Friends, the place it was a staple of the preschool viewers by means of 2010. The format of the present was easy: Barney and his dinosaur mates, alongside with a bunch of youngsters, would spend nearly all of every episode studying a few new matter, aided and assisted by friends in each human and puppet kind. The present was critically derided for its simplicity, however nonetheless a phenomenon.
This new writing/appearing gig for Edebiri continues the numerous and engaging rise of The Bear star; she’s about to seem in A24’s horror film Opus, with upcoming appearances in new films from James L. Brooks and Challengers and Queer director Luca Guadagnino. Opus will arrive in theaters March 14.