Sydney Sweeney to Star in New ‘Barbarella’ Movie

Sydney Sweeney has discovered one other movie mission so as to add to her slate, setting plans to star in a brand new “Barbarella” film for Sony Footage, a supply near the mission confirmed.

The movie stays in early growth, with no director, producer or author presently connected.

Sweeney appeared to substantiate her involvement with the mission by an Instagram publish late Tuesday afternoon. The actress shared a picture of unique art work from the unique 1968 area opera, with a caption: “time to avoid wasting the universe.”

Sweeney has develop into considerably of a marquee expertise at Sony Footage, with the actress co-starring alongside Dakota Johnson within the Marvel Comics adaptation “Madame Net.” The studio additionally landed the rights to “The Registration,” an adaptation of Madison Lawson’s thriller of the identical title. Brad Fuller is producing, whereas Sweeney is connected to star.

Past movie tasks, Sweeney’s star has risen by her acclaimed performances within the first season of HBO’s comedy collection “The White Lotus” and the community’s “Euphoria.” This 12 months, she earned Emmy nominations for her activates each packages.

Tailored from French author and illustrator Jean-Claude Forest’s comedian collection, the unique 1968 “Barbarella” starred Jane Fonda because the eponymous space-traveling heroine. Though the movie wasn’t a field workplace smash on the time, it has garnered a cult movie standing within the a long time since, with Barbarella extensively seen as one in all Fonda’s most iconic on-screen roles,

Though a number of plans have been mounted through the years, for both a sequel to director Roger Vadim’s unique function or a reboot of the property, none have come to fruition.

Deadline was first to report information of the mission.