NEWS/SONDAGGIO - Sorpresella Barbarella! L'eroina cine-comic pronta a sbarcare in una serie tv. Chi la interpreterà? Al via il sondaggio dell'Accademia dei Telefilm

Barbarella, l'eroina cine-comic nata dai fumetti nel 1962, diventerà la protagonista di una serie tv (leggi la news sotto tratta da "Vanity Fair" (USA). Nel frattempo l'Accademia dei Telefilm lancia un sondaggio per scegliere chi potrebbe interpretare la sexy eroina...Votate, votate!

Finally, our reward for dealing with that unsettling news about Jason Schwartzman potentially starring in a big-screen Trolls adaptation: a Barbarella television series! After securing the rights to the iconic sci-fi heroine/sexpot, Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis announced the small-screen reboot today. The project will center on the comic character made famous by Jane Fonda in the controversial 1968 film adaptation directed by Fonda’s then husband, Roger Vadim. Martha De Laurentiis, the widow of the film’s producer Dino De Laurentiis, has partnered with Drive director Nicolas Refn to tackle the project.After underperforming at the box office, Barbarella has since gained a cult following and was rumored to be remade in 2008 with Robert Rodriguez directing and Rose McGowan set to star. Since her 60s feature debut, the counter-culture character has inspired the band Duran Duran (named after the film’s villain, Dr. Durand Durand), an Austrian musical, a German hybrid rocket, and a pervasive interest in gravity-defying hairstyles.