While the movie plans for a remake faltered a few years ago, things shifted last year with a TV series once the property ended up in different hands. With Gaumant International working the property and having hired Niclas Refn to direct it and serve as one of the executive producers, the latest piece of the puzzle has been placed as the writers for the pilot have been brought on board. And surprisingly, it’s none other than the two men behind five of the James Bond movies, including Skyfall, with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. There’s still no firm plans for anything here at this stage in terms of casting, shooting or where it’ll go, but the project continues to progress.

Movie Concept: Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen, or the Angel Pygar, she just can’t seem to avoid losing at least a part of her skin-tight space suit!

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