Warner Bros has released the first trailer for the upcoming live-action Barbie film, showing Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as the world-famous Barbie and Ken. The film is from Oscar-nominated actress and director Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with her husband and filmmaker Noah Baumbach.
The trailer for Barbie – which is slated for release on July 21, 2023 – opens with a comical parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which includes children throwing and breaking their baby dolls after seeing Robbie’s giant Barbie doll. Narrating the teaser, Dame Helen Mirren says: “Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls.
“But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls, until…”
