Barbenheimer Set To Start Shooting, Here’s Everything We Know
Thanks to all the red tape involved with modern filmmaking, audiences have access to a great deal of behind-the-scenes information far in advance of most productions’ schedules. Resources such as IMDb and the FTIA production list offer a glimpse into nearly every active project as casting, location scouting, and financing get rolling. Thanks to these resources, we have details on the Barnbenheimer film being made, which is expected to begin shooting later this month.
Everything We Know About Barbenheimer
Creative thinkers have chosen to create a singular film mashing Barbie and Oppenheimer together, like a destructive toddler slamming dolls from two unrelated play sets into each other. Barbenheimer is set to start filming on January 22 in Los Angeles, California, and touts a directing credit from indie horror filmmaker Ted Nicolaou. Nicolaou has been helming feature films since the 1980s, with credits including Subspecies, Vampire Journals, and TerrorVision.
Donella Rose is listed as the screenwriter for Barbenheimer, though existing credits for this scribe have been difficult to locate. This may be a case of another writer utilizing a pen name, or the upcoming spoof could be the writer’s first credited work.
The film is being produced by Charles Band of Full Moon Features, a B movie studio that is responsible for such campy parody films as The Twelve Slays Of Christmas, Baby Oopsie 3: Burn Baby Burn, and most recently, Bad CGI Gator.
The film will shoot in live action and follow a living doll named Dr. Bambi J. Barbenheimer and her boyfriend Twink Dollman. Dr. Barbenheimer is said to live in a world called Dolltopia, which is similar but legally distinct from Barbie Land.
The film’s plot will center around Barbenheimer’s disgust at the treatment of dolls by human children, causing her to venture into the real world where she plans to construct a massive nuclear bomb to wipe out all of humanity in a fiery blaze.
The Barbenheimer Phenomenon
As you likely already know, Barbenheimer is the conjunctive title given to the phenomenon of last Summer’s massive blockbuster event, which saw Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer going head to head at the cinema on the same release date.
The social phenomenon sprouted due to the highly contrasting tones, themes, and subject matter of the two films, juxtaposed by the shared release date, leaving many fans to view the films as something of a whiplash-inducing double feature.
When Does Barbenheimer Release?
For those interested in catching the spoof film later this year, no release date has been provided at this time. Full Moon Features seems to release a number of its films directly on its in-house streaming service, which can be purchased from their website for $6.99 per month or $59.99 for the calendar year, or purchased as an add-on through Amazon Prime Video.
While Barbenheimer has not yet been officially announced, it seems clear that the gears on this movie are already in motion, with plans to release the film shortly after filming concludes.
Source: FTIA
