Lena Dunham Is No Longer Making The 'Polly Pocket' Movie And It's To Do With 'Barbie'
Almost one year after the cultural phenomenon of Barbieheimer, the latest in the cannon of doll biopics has been faced with its first major stumbling block.
The Polly Pocket movie was first announced in 2021 with esteemed actor and director Lena Dunham said to have signed on to write and direct the film and Lily Collins said to have agreed to portray the titular doll. Fast forward three years and it would seem that Dunham has exited the project, which she revealed in an interview this week with The New Yorker.
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'I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket movie. I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years. But I remember someone once said to me about Nancy Meyers: the thing that’s the most amazing about her is that the movie she makes or the movie she would be making with or without a studio, with or without notes—that somehow her taste manages to intersect perfectly with what the world wants. What a fucking gift that is. And Nora Ephron, too, who was such a mentor to me, but always said, "Go be weird. Don’t kowtow to anyone,"' the Girls star told the outlet.
Dunham added that unless she could replicate the 'incredible feat' of what Greta Gerwig achieved with the success of Barbie, she doesn't want to do attach herself to it.
'I just — I felt like, unless I can do it that way, I’m not going to do it. I don’t think I have that in me. I feel like the next movie I make needs to feel like a movie that I absolutely have to make. No one but me could make it. And I did think other people could make Polly Pocket,' she added.
That's not to say that we won't be hearing from Dunham for the foreseeable though. The multi-hyphenate is currently busy with a semi-autobiographical Netflix series, Too Much, which will tell the story of 'an American woman in London (Megan Stalter) who has had a bad breakup in New York and is confused, meeting a recovering punk musician (Will Sharpe) and trying to figure out if they can make a life together.'
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