Sharon Stone is an innovator, and if she had it her way, the world would have had Barbie as a film long, long before 2023. Deadline reports that Stone pitched the Barbie-as-a-movie concept as far back as the 1990s, but that, in her words, “We got thrown out of the studio.”
While appearing on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade, Stone said “I went to the studio to try and make Barbie in the 1990s with a producer, a friend of mine, and I had the then-CEO of Mattel on my side. We got thrown out of the studio. They were like, ‘Why would you take this American icon and try to destroy it? What is wrong with you?’ I got a lecture and an escort to the door.”
