The Barbie movie Amy Schumer was attached to wasn't 'feminist' or 'cool' like Greta Gerwig's
in March 2022 that she exited the project after it became clear that Sony “definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it.”The way Schumer, alongside her sister and writing partner Kim Caramele, wanted to do it quickly proved misaligned with Sony’s vision, as Schumer told. The actor recalls taking issue with rewrites that dumbed down the “ambitious inventor” Caramele and Schumer had written Barbie as.
There was also the“The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,’” Schumer explained. Ultimately, she parted ways with the project and later, left her agents at UTA behind, recalling: “canceled at Sony, moved to Warner Bros. in 2018, lead actor Margot Robbie signed on as a producer and Greta Gerwig took the reins as director. In a recent interview withpremieres in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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