Amy Schumer Barbie Movie Salt - They didn't learn their lesson after Ghostbusters.

[Munchingonfish]

Can you imagine the feminist chimpouts if Sony makes this body positive movie but digitally alters how Schummer looks?

Do it.

 

[Directing]

prediction: if this should get made, it will be a mediocre film, not really good or bad, but both sides will praise/condenm the movie for a week or two and then it will be forgotten.

 

[StarvingAutist]

This isn't an animated movie.

I meant all Hollywood kid's movies, regardless of medium.

 

[bacterium]

Didn't read the thread. But wouldn't the Ghostbuster treatment mean they are casting a dude as barbie?

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

I wonder who could be behind this...

Look, it's either her or you at this point, Sony.

 

[millais]

I think they should have gotten Leslie Jones instead.

Maybe Leslie was already booked for the next Trollz movie.

 

[DangerousGas]

So when are they releasing the movie tie-in dolls with articulated bingo wings?

 

[DumbDosh]

The funniest thing would be if Amy Schumer secretly diets for the role and then portrays Barbie as a skinny woman.

Then feminists and anti tumblr people wouldn't know what to think.

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

Eh. These kind of cash grab films have existed since the 80s. And I can't even muster up enough fucks over the fact that Amy Schumer is playing Barbie. Alright, cool, I guess? Although watching the chimpouts should be funny.

Unsurprisingly, the guy whining about FUCKING WHITE MALES is a white male himself.

Of fucking course he is.

 

[Yhwach]

nigga what sexuality do you think a man who spends most of his time dressing up is

So that's why he goes in the closet with other guys to change his clothes...

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I'm waiting for a Tampax Pearl movie. It will be great!

And then Kotex and Playtex will try to cash in on it.

 

[Munchingonfish]

I wonder who could be behind this...

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Look, it's either her or you at this point, Sony.

It gets much better than that

Amy Pascal has won a bidding war for the rights to Zoe Quinn's acclaimed memoir CRASH OVERRIDE: How to Save the Internet from Itself.

Quinn is the independent video game developer who was targeted online when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend went viral, sparking the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy. Quinn fought back, thus starting a conversation about the violent sexism in the gaming industry.

The memoir sold to Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, and will be released on Sept. 15, 2016.

Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, who met while working as journalists at the Wall Street Journal, are set to adapt to book for the screen.

Pascal will finance and produce the film under her Pascal Pictures banner, which is based at Sony Entertainment, with Entertainment 360 (Game of Thrones, Steve Jobs).

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gamergate-movie-works-amy-pascal-837962

 

[Rio]

I'm a bit puzzled by the discussion around this to be honest. Does it really matter if they make a feminist barbie movie? From the OP it seems like a bunch of people are criticizing this choice, but like... why? Why do people care about what a barbie movie does? There's not even the ghostbusters excuse of "I liked the first one, so I don't want them to mess with this franchise." I have a hard time believing anyone who'd get angry about this is invested in Barbie as a cinematic franchise.

 

[VortekPMD]

In an industry with bubbly blonde actresses who are smart funny and witty, you pick...her.

 

[Yhwach]

I'm a bit puzzled by the discussion around this to be honest. Does it really matter if they make a feminist barbie movement? From the OP it seems like a bunch of people are criticizing this choice, but like... why? Why do people care about what a barbie movie does? There's not even the ghostbusters excuse of "I liked the first one, so I don't want them to mess with this franchise." I have a hard time believing anyone who'd get angry about this is invested in Barbie as a cinematic franchise.

Some of the wackier folks out there probably think this movie will actually turn people into Tumblrinas as a part of some EVIL LEFT CONSPIRACY.

...Or something; hell if I know. Try not to think about this too much and just laugh at the idiots on both sides.

 

[RJ MacReady]

What's the controversy? It's just Sony choosing to lose money because Sony is the equivalent of a Downs syndrome child so rock stupid its parents need to electrocute it with a cattle prod to stop it from eating detergent.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

I'm a bit puzzled by the discussion around this to be honest. Does it really matter if they make a feminist barbie movement? From the OP it seems like a bunch of people are criticizing this choice, but like... why? Why do people care about what a barbie movie does? There's not even the ghostbusters excuse of "I liked the first one, so I don't want them to mess with this franchise." I have a hard time believing anyone who'd get angry about this is invested in Barbie as a cinematic franchise.

It's probably less about the movie and more about the people defending it. You can say this whole thing is just an excuse for people to rage against women, but it's also, by extension, an excuse for people to rage against (white) men. Either way, people will get mad. It won't take long for the media to purposely escalate things further - the more people fight, the more clickbait they can shit out.

 

[Jack Awful]

IDK if this role is right for Amy.
I mean, Barbie dolls don't have vaginas for her to make jokes about.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

I'm waiting for the tie in Body-positive Barbie with fat rolls and wonky boobs. Oh wait, it's Barbie so they'll get a plus sized Barbie that's STILL an unattainable ideal standard of beauty somehow.

 

[D.Angus]

Welp.. This is the exact same tactic they used to get people talking about Ghostbusters, drumming up controversy to hide the fact Sony pictures can't make a good movie to save their lives.