As we first mentioned back in 2007, film director Robert Rodriguez has been trying to remake the Jane Fonda classic, Barbarella. The down side? He decided to cast his girlfriend, Rose McGowan, as the lead.
Big mistake!
Months later reports surfaced that Universal Studios backed out of the deal as a result of McGowan starring in the flick, though Rodriguez denied that was the real reason, blaming it solely on financial issues.
And when rumors of the couple splitting up leaked, reports were that McGowan would no longer be the lead.
But, now MTV is confirming that the Barbarella remake is officially over. During a recent chat with Rodriguez, the director confirmed the movie is no longer a go.
Rodriguez admitted:
“It came to the point where [a company from] Germany offered us a $70 million budget, which would have been by far the biggest budget I ever would have had for a movie. But I had to shoot it in Germany and post it in Germany. Nothing against Germany, but I have five kids and I was like, ‘God, I don’t know if we can do that. I don’t know if I can be away that long.’
It was a real bummer. We had all this artwork and screen tests of what it would look like. It was a really cool, R-rated, sexy—almost like that [1981 animated] movie, ‘Heavy Metal’—version of a ‘Star Wars’ movie. Something that no one ever could get to see. It was gonna be really great.”
Yea yea, we bet.
Blame it on Rose!
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