Move over Barbie! Why Lena Dunham's Polly Pocket movie starring Lily Collins could be next big toy blockbuster
Barbie has wowed at the box office?since debuting last week, and it has quickly become one of the most successful films of the year within days.
But fans of the film may be primed to check out another 近づいている toy-奮起させるd film, the buzzed-about Polly Pocket movie to be directed by Girls creator and 星／主役にする Lena Dunham.
The filmmaker has cast Emily In Paris 星／主役にする Lily Collins as the 肩書を与える character, and Collins will also have a 手渡す in the 生産／産物 as one of its 生産者s.
Several of the Barbie movie's 肯定的な reviews have 賞賛するd the way it managed to 挿入する feminist messages にもかかわらず 促進するing a classic toy, and it's likely that Dunham may have 類似の aspirations considering her 広範囲にわたって publicized thoughts on politics and womanhood.
The doll, which was designed in the 早期に '80s and first produced at the end of the １０年間, 初めは were いっそう少なく than an インチ tall and fit inside small dollhouse play 始める，決めるs, though その後の iterations of the toy have 増加するd in size, though it is still smaller than a 基準 Barbie.
Barbie who? Lena Dunham could have the next big toy-奮起させるd 攻撃する，衝突する on her 手渡すs as she 準備するs her next directorial feature, a Polly Pocket film starring Lilly Collins
Modern classic: The popular micro-doll was introduced in 1989, and a larger 見解／翻訳／版 of the doll was created に引き続いて Mattel's 1998 敵意を持った 引き継ぎ／買収 of its 初めの 製造業者, Bluebird Toys
The item was first produced by Bluebird Toys in 1989, and the dolls created by the 初めの 製造業者 have since become collectors items.
In 1998, Mattel ― which makes Barbie ― bought Bluebird in a 敵意を持った 引き継ぎ／買収 and began selling Polly Pocket toys under its own 指名する, though it 規模d up the design and made the character more lifelike and 現実主義の.
In 2021, it was 発表するd that Dunham and Collins would be 共同製作 on a Polly Pocket film, and Mattel has 積極性 開始する，打ち上げるd a 予定する of other films 奮起させるd by its toys, 含むing a Barney film starring Daniel Kaluuya and a He-Man movie, によれば The New Yorker.
Mattel and MGM are 始める，決める to produce the P olly Pocket movie with Dunham's 生産／産物 company?Good Thing Going, によれば Variety.?
It's 報告（する）／憶測d to 焦点（を合わせる） on a young girl and the tiny 'pocket-sized' woman that she befriends, によれば the 出版（物）.
Collins also 公式文書，認めるd in a 噴出するing 地位，任命する 発表するing the 事業／計画（する） that it will '再提出する Polly to the world in a fun, modern way… bringing these tiny toys to the big 審査する.'
'As a child who was obsessed with Polly Pocket, this is a real dream come true and I can’t wait to bring these tiny toys to the big 審査する,' said Collins after the film 生産／産物 was 発表するd.
'Polly Pocket was 責任がある countless hours of childhood escapism for me ― Polly gave me a tiny world of 魔法 and 自治 to narrate, so it’s pretty poetic to be 取り組むing these same ideas now as a director 共同製作 with the brilliant Lily Collins, Robbie Brenner, Mattel and MGM,' Dunham joined in 経由で a 声明.
'I’m so thrilled to bring to 耐える both my love of this historic 所有物／資産／財産 and also my 深い-seated belief that young women need smart playful films that speak to them without condescension,' she 追加するd.
Hoping for more 攻撃する，衝突するs: Polly Pocket is part of a string of films Mattel is making to market its toys. Greta Gerwig's Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (pictured), has 証明するd to be a 大規模な 攻撃する，衝突する. It has already 甚だしい／１２ダースd?$188.1M 国内の as of Monday
星／主役にする 力／強力にする: Collins will play Polly and will also produce. 'As a child who was obsessed with Polly Pocket, this is a real dream come true and I can’t wait to bring these tiny toys to the big 審査する,' she said on social マスコミ after the film was 発表するd; seen in LA in April
In October of last year, as she was 促進するing her film Catherine Called Birdy, Dunham 株d that she had 完全にするd a second 草案 of her Polly Pocket film, によれば The Hollywood Reporter.
'We have a lot of fun with the idea of what happens when a small person 遭遇（する）s a big world,' she teased.
The Tiny Furniture filmmaker 確認するd that she would be 描写するing the 肩書を与える doll in its 初めの miniature 見解／翻訳／版, rather than the 現在の larger 見解／翻訳／版 of Polly Pocket.
'Let’s just say Polly Pocket was at her best when she was the 初めの teensy tiny ’90s size,' she said when asked how large Collins would be in the movie. 'They made her a little bigger now, which I support, because of choking hazards. But I’m 令状ing ’90s tiny.'
にもかかわらず the fact that she'll have to find a unique way to spin her doll-主題d movie after Greta Gerwig already 首尾よく did that with her Margot Robbie?starring Barbie film doesn't seem to have worried her, though the Barbie film was still months away from 解放（する） at the time of her comments.
In fact, she 株d her excitement about the 未来 blockbuster.?
'I just want that movie in the world and I want to be watching that 権利 now. I wish we were at a 審査 of Barbie 権利 now,' Dunham said.
Although she is a 議論の的になる 人物／姿／数字, Dunham is also a 批判的な darling whose series Girls, which she created, starred in, and often wrote and directed.
Overjoyed: 'I’m so thrilled to bring to 耐える both my love of this historic 所有物／資産／財産 and also my 深い-seated belief that young women need smart playful films that speak to them without condescension,' Dunham said in a 声明; seen in September 2022 in Toronto, Canada
延期するd: Dunham had finished a second screenplay 草案 as of October 2022, but the 現在進行中の WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes mean Polly Pocket may not begin 生産／産物 until late this year or 2024
The series is now considered one of the most 影響力のある shows of the 2010s, and Dunham is also 責任がある 令状ing, directing and starring in the 批判的に acclaimed 独立した・無所属 film Tiny Furniture.
She also directed two films last year, the polarizing coming-of-age dramedy Sharp Stick and the glowingly reviewed coming-of-age comedy Catherine Called Birdy, which starred The Last Of Us' Bella Ramsey with Joe Alwyn, Billie Piper and Andrew Scott.?
Although the 参加 of Dunham and Collins and the 粉砕する success of Barbie has 増加するd 予期 for Polly Pocket, there have been no 報告（する）／憶測s of the film starting 生産／産物, and the 現在進行中の WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes will have paused any 進歩.
Although it's possible that Polly Pocket could begin filming later this year if the 二重の strikes are 解決するd soon, it may not begin 生産／産物 until 2024 if either one of them drags on for much longer.
