A TV series based on Jean Claude Foret’s Barbarella graphic novel has apparently found a home at Amazon, which has begun to field its own slate of streaming TV series.
Foret’s Barbarella first appeared in serial form in V-Magazine in 1962 and was collected in a graphic novel that was published in 1964. Though its nudity was mild by the standard of adult comics today (or the Tijuana Bibles that long preceded Barbarella), Foret’s creation caused something a scandal in France where it became known as the first "adult" comic book.
The character of Barbarella, whose physical characteristics closely matched those of movie sensation Brigitte Bardot, travels from planet to planet and engages in many adventures (as well as affairs with various aliens). In 1968 Roger Vadim directed a live-action movie adaptation of Barbarella starring Jane Fonda that was something of flop at the time, but which has become a cult classic.
Now, according to Deadline, Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have penned a pilot script for a Barbarella TV series and Amazon is searching for a showrunner "in anticipation of a pilot pickup." Nicholas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising) is acting as executive producer for the project, which has been in development for over a year (see "'Barbarella' on TV").
Pilot Order Expected
Posted by ICv2 on January 20, 2014 @ 9:45 pm CT
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