Last year. there was news circulating on social media that after the wildly popular cultural phenomenon around the release of ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’, a movie titled ‘Barbenheimer’ would be released.
Now as reported by foreign-based media outlets, an actual low-budget ‘Barbenheimer’ film is coming this year, and reportedly the movie will begin filming this month on January 2024.
The movie follows a scientist doll in Dolltopia who tries to take out humanity with a nuclear bomb. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer marked his first biopic on the ‘father of atomic bomb’, J. Robert Oppenheimer whereas Greta Gerwig’s Barbie caught fan frenzy as a biting satire on the beloved Mattel doll, unlike any previous adaptation.
Taking this cinematic face-off to the next level, renowned B-movie director Charles Band has announced his upcoming film called Barbenheimer where the manufacture of bombs and Barbies coalesce ingeniously into a low-budget comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The man behind Full Moon production company, Band boasts a repertoire of low-budget horror franchises like Puppet Master, Ghoulies, Trancers, and Demonic Toys as well as the cult-hit Re-animator. However, he also points out the need for humor amid the deluge of dark and sombre content in recent cinema.
Meanwhile, a rival hashtag – “NoBarbenheimer” – garnered attention on social media in Japan, with people using it to criticize the “Barbie” account’s conflation of the two films.
