Every Friday there’s a piece of movie news legitimately worthy of a big TGIF: Today, that news is that Margot Robbie is in talks to play Barbie in the live-action movie of the same name, inspired by the iconic Mattel doll. Even better news: Patty Jenkins, the director who breathed new, glorious life into the DCEU with Wonder Woman, is in early talks to direct it.
Valeria Lukyanova, the Russian Barbie, has gone to painstaking lengths to make herself the human equivalent of the beloved children’s toy. Whether or not the Kremlin is involved in this idea has yet to be discovered.