Margot Robbie pitched Barbie as a billion-dollar grosser

We simply printed a 2,000-word retrospective on Barbie and her lengthy journey to the large display, however because it seems, we actually ought to have introduced our timeline all the best way again to… the dinosaurs. That’s proper: she actually has been right here since the daybreak of man!

Simply after we thought the size of this film couldn’t presumably get any bigger, Margot Robbie revealed that life within the Dreamhouse could not have been potential with out life first, uh, discovering a approach within the Jurassic interval. Or, not less than, with out Steven Spielberg making it so iconic.

“I believe my pitch within the green-light assembly was the studios have prospered a lot after they’re courageous sufficient to pair a giant thought with a visionary director,” stated Robbie—who additionally serves as a producer on the movie and was connected to the undertaking earlier than Greta Gerwig—in a latest Collider interview.

“I gave a collection of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that—just about naming something that’s been unbelievable and made a ton of cash for the studios through the years,” she continued. “And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve received Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’”

Clearly, Robbie’s peanut-butter-and-jelly pitch struck a chord with studios in the identical approach as Spielberg’s, who she imagines should have appeared fairly “foolish” raving about dinosaurs to studio bigwigs earlier than Jurassic Park went on to change into “the best film ever.”

One other factor that will have helped flip the tide on the long-languishing undertaking? Large ol’ stacks of money, clearly. “I believe I instructed them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which possibly I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make, okay?!” Robbie added. A lack of transparency round knowledge and greenback quantities? Feels like one thing the studios love much more than Jurassic Park.