After the great popularity of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”: Hollywood wants to make a black comedy “Barbenheimer”
Director Charles Band, known for making quick and cheap movies, announced the creation of a low-budget comedy about a scientist doll who will try to destroy humanity.
Director Charles Band, who has been making low-budget comedy horror films since the early 1970s, has announced that he is developing a comedy called Barbenheimer. He openly admits that his upcoming feature film is a shameless attempt to cash in on the success of Barbie and Oppenheimer. However, Bend says it’s a great opportunity to have a little fun by combining two very different films.
“That’s 100 percent true. But it’s also an opportunity to have fun with the weird combination of those two movies and the combination of the Barbie vibe and the Oppenheimer darkness. You mix it all together and you have this opportunity for black humor,” Bend commented on his upcoming film.
According to the description of the upcoming film, Barbenheimer tells the story of Dr. Bambi J. Barbenheimer, a doctor who is a doctor of medicine. Barbenheimer, a genius doll-scientist who lives in Dolltopia, a world of endless summer and beach parties, and about her boyfriend, Twinkle Dollman. Dr. Barbenheimer, enraged by the abuse of dolls in the hands of human children, travels to the real world, where she experiences humanity at its worst, and decides to create a giant nuclear bomb to destroy it all.
“They’re great looking and loved! Oh, and now they have a bomb,” the synopsis reads.
Charles Band admits that the idea is “ridiculous.”
“But it seems like all the other features are dark and depressing, and it’s like, God, we need some humor in 2024,” the director said.
He admitted that his biographer Adam Felber came up with the idea for Barbenheimer.
“He called me and said: “We have to make a movie about Barbenheimer. Everyone around the world is having fun with this idea, so we have to do it,” the director explained.
The cast of the film will be announced soon, with a budget of just under $1 million. Filming is scheduled for next year, when the band will complete its 397th feature film.
