The first trailer for the long-awaited Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, was unveiled this Friday by Warner Bros.
In the preview published on YouTube, Barbie (Margot Robbie) appears dressed in the black and white striped bathing suit with which she went on the market in 1959 surrounded by girls who play with baby dolls that they end up destroying to keep the Mattel toy. .
The advance evokes the primate scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick that symbolizes the evolution of thought.
A narrator's voice begins by explaining that "since the beginning of time, since the first little girl existed, there have been dolls, but dolls had always been baby dolls until...", at which point a Barbie appears. giant.
The 75-second trailer also features an all-pink toy town, dance scenes and a brief glimpse of Barbie's boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling).
Dressed in black, Gosling steps out with platinum blonde hair and tanned skin, doing a sort of headlock as if he were playing sports.
According to the specialized media Variety, the film will show Barbie and Ken trapped in the real world and will follow the difficulties of becoming a real woman.
The film is scheduled to be released on July 21, 2023 in the United States.
The original script for the film was written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, his sentimental partner, who had already worked together on films such as "Frances Ha".
