According to THR, Barbie will be played by Amy Schumer (Trainwreck, Inside Amy Schumer) in the upcoming live-action film.
While this hasn’t been officially confirmed by either Schumer or Sony, word as of this writing is that Schumer has the role.
For quite a few years now, Sony has been promising the arrival of a live-action film based on Mattel’s hugely popular Barbie doll.
As Barbie, however, Schumer will be entering into a world that Sony has aimed at the family-comedy demographic, with past hits like Enchanted, Splash and Big as models.