“Barbie” may perhaps quickly be joined by a different Mattel doll on the significant screen. The toy firm is establishing a live-motion film based mostly on its American Lady doll line, Mattel introduced Wednesday.
“American Girl” will be produced by Mattel Movies, Paramount Photos and Temple Hill Amusement, the generation enterprise of “Twilight” and “The Fault in Our Stars.” Attached to publish the script and generate is Lindsey Anderson Beer, the writer of this year’s “Pet Cemetery: Bloodlines.”
The job provides to the by now teeming pipeline of films in improvement for Mattel Movies. Subsequent its blockbuster initially launch, “Barbie,” Mattel Movies is prepping some 14 dwell-motion movies, which includes flicks based on Sizzling Wheels, Magic 8 Ball, Polly Pocket, Rock ‘Em Sock ’Em Robots and UNO.
“Saturday Evening Live” has by now spoofed the thought of an American Female doll film. In April, the NBC sketch comedy exhibit aired a parody trailer with Ana de Armas in which a handful of American Woman dolls from disparate eras of heritage are introduced into fashionable day but hold dying of cholera.
“Come for the fun,” the trailer announces. “Keep for the overburdened preteens carrying four levels of petticoats and pantaloons.”
Mattel in 2019 partnered with MGM on an “American Girl” film but individuals ideas fizzled. Because to start with released in 1986, additional than 32 million American Girl dolls have been offered.
“They are traditionally correct toys and equipment that element elaborate and immersive backstories uniquely suited to deliver to display screen,” Beer explained in a assertion. “I am so fired up to inform a story that tackles the issues of girlhood in a genuine and compelling way.”
