Barbie in general has been controversial in recent years, but Mattel Film Chief Robbie Brenner says there’s no real reason to hate on Barbie or her movie.
(Eventually, Margot Robbie was signed on.)
Mattel’s Barbie movie has been living in some sort of developmental limbo for years now.
Initially it was at Sony and now it’s landed at Warner Bros., but only after both Anne Hathaway and Amy Schumer were attached and then left the project.