‘Barbie’ Teaser Trailer: Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling Are Barbie & Ken For Director Greta Gerwig

Everyone’s got to shoot their shot, right? After two beloved films, the Academy Award-nominated indie “Lady Bird” and the bigger, more ambitious “Little Women,” actor turned filmmaker Greta Gerwig really went for it with “Barbie.” Even though we still don’t really know what the movie is—other than seemingly a big subversion of the Barbie brand— Gerwig making the giant leap to a big IP brand, what is a big studio tentpole coming out and the summer and a star-studded cast really seemed to blow away most pundits and cineastes.

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Given her indie bonafides, taking on something potentially big, broad, and potentially mainstream seemed like a considerable risk, but by the looks of all the set photos—that set the film world ablaze throughout all of 2022, seemingly bigger and more outrageous with every new set of snaps that leaked—Gerwig just took her shot.

What do we know about the movie? Well, it’s co-written with her partner Noah Baumbach—apparently, she volunteered him to co-write it even before he agreed to it, lol, that’s love— and the cast is insanely big. Margot Robbie stars as Barbie, Ryan Gosling as Ken, and the movie also apparently features many different versions of Ken and Barbie. It’s unclear who they all are precisely, but the film also features America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell as the CEO of Mattel, Emerald Fennell, Alexandra Shipp, and many, many more.

The film is no joke on any level; even her creative collaborators are massive; Scorsese cinematographer and three-time Academy Award-nominated Rodrigo Prieto (“The Irishman”) as her director of photography and two-time Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (“The Shape Of Water”) is writing the film’s score.

And after all that, well, the first teaser trailer for the film has finally arrived. You can feast your eyeballs on that, including its hilarious homage to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey,” yes, this film is really going for it and going to be wild. “Barbie” is set to open in wide release on July 21, 2023, via Warner Bros.