Does anybody else remember way back, when we first heard about the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie? I was thinking, "There's no way they can make a decent movie based on an old ride at Disneyland." Maybe that was just me. They made three pretty damn good movies, and two other ones, in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. They were all led by Johnny Depp's quirky Captain Jack Sparrow, a character based largely on Keith Richards. Seriously.
My point here is that with some good writers, you can make a good mass market movie starting with most any topic. A good writing team could create a compelling story about a rutabaga, if the rutabaga was famous to begin with. In the case of the Barbie movie, we have a very feminist movie, from what I hear, based on a toy that warped little girl's body image ideas for over 50 years. Touche'.
The reason I'm writing a post here about the Barbie movie is because in one of the videos I watched, when I wrote my original post about "Barbenheimer," the Mattel CEO said he had 14 other movies in development, all based, of course, on Mattel toys. OK, Hot Wheels, there's definitely movie potential there. But what the hell are the other 13? Fisher Price people? Thomas the Train? Monster High? American Girl? Barney? Uno? Stay tuned, apparently Mattel plans to go "Marvel" on us, and use their toys' intellectual property to produce a whole bunch of movies, which probably won't do near as well as the Barbie movie has. Stay tuned kids... Oh, and this video is still the best video ever featuring Barbie.
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