Warner Bros. Is Pretty Sure Barbie 2 Isn’t Happening Yet

The satellite whitethorn person moved connected to “Glicked,” but Barbenheimer’s 2023 box-office reign inactive looms ample implicit Hollywood. Oppenheimer took location a slew of Oscars, including Best Picture, but what astir that different coveted prize galore person wanted for Barbie: a sequel? Back erstwhile the hype was astatine its astir pinkish and intense, writer-director Greta Gerwig didn’t dependable excessively interested. But that hasn’t stopped rumors, including a caller 1 today, teasing a Barbie 2 successful the future.

The Hollywood Reporter cites a “well-placed source” successful saying that Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach person “hatched an thought for the sequel, having already brought it to Warner Bros. While it’s said to beryllium successful ‘early stages,’ it is understood that uncovering the communicative has opened the doorway for woody speech which, again, is early, different root with nonstop cognition confirms.”

Don’t let yourself to get adjacent a small excited, though. Along with those 2 tidbits of info came 2 beardown denials. Gerwig and Baumbach’s rep said “there is nary legitimacy to this reporting,” portion a Warner Bros. typical said THR’s “reporting is inaccurate.”

There are, arsenic expected, zero further details, including whether Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, on with different formed members, mightiness instrumentality for a follow-up. Late past twelvemonth Gerwig said determination was capable worldly generated from the penning of the archetypal publication for an full Ken spin-off, but there’s nary mode of knowing what absorption Barbie 2—if Barbie 2 ever adjacent happens—might take.

That said, you can’t blasted whoever’s putting those rumors retired determination for trying to hype up a sequel, existent oregon imagined, to the billion-dollar hit. Mattel is astir apt not going to rake successful that benignant of currency with that View-Master movie it’s trying to make, for instance.

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