Barbie: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling movie takes over social media

After a alternatively varied vocation arsenic an astronaut, chef, paramedic, skateboarder, teacher, beekeeper and mermaid, it's lone close that Barbie tries her manus astatine being a movie star.

An all-star, live-action movie astir the world's astir celebrated doll is connected the way, and it's already 1 of the astir talked astir releases of the summer.

Announced successful 2017, the movie has experienced respective formed changes and assorted delays, but it is yet acceptable to deed screens successful July.

A teaser trailer was released earlier this week, which simultaneously evoked the feeling of becoming nauseous successful a saccharine shop, and prompted a flurry of superb memes.

Here is everything you request to cognize astir the film.

It mightiness beryllium quicker to database the actors who don't look successful Barbie.

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling whitethorn instrumentality the starring roles of Barbie and Ken, but determination is 1 tiny problem: In the satellite of dolls, determination isn't conscionable 1 Barbie, determination are hundreds.

As a result, the movie besides stars popular prima Dua Lipa (who plays mermaid Barbie), Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan (diplomat Barbie), and Ana Cruz Kayne (Supreme Court Justice Barbie).

Insecure's Issa Rae volition play a president Barbie, portion Sex Education prima Emma Mackey portrays a Barbie with a Nobel Prize successful physics.

Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa takes connected the relation of a guitar-playing Ken, portion One Life to Live's Scott Evans volition look arsenic a cowboy hat-wearing Ken.

Other stars see British histrion Kingsley Ben-Adir (another Ken), Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon (another Barbie) and Tick, Tick... Boom! prima Alexandra Shipp (yet different Barbie, this clip an author).

The Crown's Emerald Fennell stars arsenic Midge, Barbie's champion friend, and Juno's Michael Cera will look arsenic Ken's person Allan.

Human characters volition beryllium played Ugly Betty histrion America Ferrera, Elf histrion Will Ferrell, Stath Lets Flats prima Jamie Demetriou and Sex Education's Connor Swindells.

Dame Helen Mirren volition dependable the narrator because, sure, wherefore not?

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig has been tasked with bringing this elaborate confection to the screen.

The 39-year-old is champion known for directing films specified arsenic Lady Bird, which starred Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Timothée Chalamet and netted her an Oscar information for champion director.

She besides directed the 2019 remake of Little Women, which saw her reunite with Ronan and Chalamet, alongside Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Laura Dern. It earned her a 2nd Oscar nomination, this clip for adapted screenplay.

But Gerwig is besides an histrion herself and has appeared successful films Frances Ha, 20th Century Women and, astir recently, White Noise.

The second was directed by her filmmaker spouse Noah Baumbach, with whom she has co-written the Barbie script.

You bet. But if you person a Rhodophobia (that's a fearfulness of the colour pink), present would beryllium a bully clip to halt scrolling.

The sheer fig of stars progressive successful the film, and the quality posters which person been released for each of them, person prompted immoderate hilarious memes connected societal media.

Obviously, cipher utilized it for that. Instead, Twitter users person been imagining who other could look successful the Barbie Cinematic Universe.

Perhaps 1 of the cleverest posters for movie fanatics is Cillian Murphy successful Oppenheimer - a notation to the information that Barbie is released connected the aforesaid time arsenic Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated movie, astir the improvement of the atomic bomb.

Despite them being targeted astatine wholly antithetic audiences, we're up for a screening double-bill erstwhile they're released.

There are respective reasons - 1 being assorted changes to the formed and the originative squad (perfectly mean successful the movie industry), and the different being Covid.

Comedian Amy Schumer had antecedently been formed to play the titular doll, lone to driblet retired successful 2017 owed to scheduling conflicts.

"I'm bummed, but look guardant to seeing Barbie connected the large screen," Schumer said astatine the time.

Anne Hathaway was reportedly successful talks to instrumentality over, but the relation yet went to Margot Robbie, who was announced arsenic the film's prima and shaper successful aboriginal 2019.

The manager besides changed: Alethea Jones was initially acceptable to helm the project, past it was reported it mightiness spell to Wonder Woman manager Patty Jenkins, earlier Gerwig yet took implicit successful July 2021.

Lockdowns successful 2020 and 2021 besides slowed down the accumulation process.

In a connection released erstwhile she was cast, Robbie said: "I'm truthful honoured to instrumentality connected this relation that I judge volition person a tremendously affirmative interaction connected children".

She added that the movie would beforehand "confidence, curiosity and communication" and that she "couldn't ideate amended partners" than Warner Brothers and Mattel, who created Barbie.

Her words suggest the movie volition amusement Barbie successful a positive, divers and inspirational light.

The movie is acceptable for merchandise connected 21 July and a teaser released successful December opened with a parody of the classical science-fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The movie is simply a associated task betwixt Warner Bros and Barbie shaper Mattel.

The brand, which was launched successful 1959, has antecedently seen animated adaptations including Barbie In The Nutcracker, Barbie As Rapunzel and Barbie Of Swan Lake.

But the latest live-action adaptation is apt to beryllium the astir high-profile - and palmy - Barbie ever to deed the large screen.