Pamela Anderson lately proved herself to be a star flip in Liam Neeson’s The Bare Gun, but it surely appears to be like like she is now set to resurrect certainly one of her panned 90s roles – however this time as a producer slightly than star. It appears that evidently the previous Baywatch star is about to move again to Metal Harbor to convey a brand new iteration of leather-clad, busty, cult comedian guide character Barbara “Barb Wire” Kopetski to the small display screen in a brand new TV collection.
Based on Deadline, Anderson will probably be reviving Barb Wire by way of And-Her-Sons Productions firm, which the actress lately launched with – you guessed it – her sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. The brand new undertaking will probably be in partnership with Common and Darkish Horse Leisure.
Whereas there have been loads of legacy sequels hitting cinemas and streaming platforms within the final a number of years, followers shouldn’t count on his to be certainly one of them. Anderson won’t be filling out the tight leathers of Barb this time round, and the undertaking may have a “completely different really feel” than her panned film outing because the kick-ass bounty hunter. Whereas there are only a few particulars recognized about what the undertaking will appear to be, a brutal, attractive, R-rated comedian guide undertaking would slot in very properly with the success of reveals like Peacemaker, and there couldn’t be a greater time to have Barb Wire tearing up the display screen.
Who’s Barb Wire?
For individuals who haven’t caught Anderson’s 1996 film or the comedian books it was primarily based on, Barbara “Barb Wire” Kopetski is a glossy and profitable nightclub proprietor within the final “free metropolis” in a fascist imaginative and prescient of a dystopian America, who doubles at night time as a mercenary-for-hire in Metal Harbor. The film’s synopsis reads:
“When scientist Cora Devonshire (Victoria Rowell) wanders into Barb’s institution, she will get roped right into a top-secret authorities plot involving organic weapons. Quickly Barb is reunited together with her previous flame Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), who’s now Cora’s husband and a guerrilla fighter, leading to loads of tense motion.”
The unique comics had been created by Chris Warner for Darkish Horse Comics within the early ’90s, and whereas it has been a number of years since Barb Wire appeared in any new comedian runs, the timing of Anderson’s new undertaking coincides with a newly introduced Barb Wire Compendium being on the way in which in February 2026.
The 1996 film starring Anderson is one that might have simply slipped below the radar for contemporary audiences, because the movie was a $3.8 million field workplace flop on its launch, however discovered a cult following in a while residence video. Within the years since, the movie’s status – and a set of dismal Rotten Tomatoes scores (28% critics, 15% viewers) – has helped it principally fade into obscurity.
When it was launched, Barb Wire was labeled by many as an try to money in on Anderson’s intercourse image standing, and one take a look at her busty blonde look in advertising and marketing for the movie didn’t actually debunk that concept. Who will tackle the function of Barb within the new collection is just not but recognized, however a number of feedback have already made it recognized that Sydney Sweeney was born for the function. Can’t think about why they’d suppose that.
- Launch Date
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Could 2, 1996
- Runtime
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98 minutes
- Director
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David Hogan
- Writers
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Chuck Pfarrer
- Producers
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Brad Wyman, Mike Richardson, Peter Heller