Sydney Sweeney says Edgar Wright’s Barbarella is still happening

A little time has passed since we heard something Edgar Wright’S Barbarella remake, but second Sydney SweeneyThe space adventure is very alive and it seems that it will be wild.

In 2022, the news eliminated that Sweeney would not be just as the iconic protagonist Barbarella But also produce the film for Sony Pictures. In 2024, Wright, known for Baby driver, Scott PilgrimAND Shaun of the Deadsigned for direct. So … Radio silence.

Now, in a new interview with Screenrant, Sweeney has finally offered an update, saying:

“I was alone in London and I had a meeting to discuss history and script. I can’t say too much, but it will really meet in a very, very fun and big way.

“It’s a long process. I don’t think people realize how much some things can use, but it will be worth waiting …”

No details of the plot have yet been revealed and no other cast member has been announced. But the original Barbarella is a 1968 science fiction cult classic based on the French comic book by Jean-Claude Forest. He created a rather high bar for strange and sexy spaces.

The film recited Jane founded As the adventurer the owner sent to recover a scientist who disappeared from a bizarre alien world. If you have seen it, you know that it is part of science fiction, partly with a d part with psychedelic are open, with zero concern for subtlety.

While Sweeney is preparing for BarbarellaIt is committed. It has a stacky blackboard that includes Ron Howard’S Eden (22 August 2025), Paul Feig’S The waitress (December 25, 2025) and a biographical film by Christy Martin.

Wright, meanwhile, is deeply in production The man runningits adaptation of the Stephen King mutual novel Glen Powellwhich affects cinema on November 7, 2025.