The concept of a Barney film being launched by A24, produced by Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya, and written by and starring Emmy-winning actress Ayo Edebiri appears like a joke in an SNL sketch. Nonetheless, it most definitely is actual. Actually, A24’s Barney could be some of the fascinating IP diversifications since Barbie. The Barney film was first introduced in 2019 however now seems to be gaining some actual traction as Kaluuya is placing a robust inventive crew collectively for the live-action reboot.
Selection stories that Ayo Edebiri has joined the in-development Barney film as each screenwriter and star. Daniel Kaluuya’s 59% Productions is partnering with A24 to provide the movie, working intently with Mattel Movies, the homeowners of the Barney IP. Though Kaluuya has been overseeing Barney‘s inventive growth as lead producer, he isn’t anticipated to star within the movie. Particulars on the plot of Barney are beneath wraps, and no director is at the moment hooked up to the undertaking.
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Created in 1988, Barney first appeared in a collection of direct-to-video releases titled Barney & The Yard Gang, however he did not turn out to be a significant sensation amongst youngsters till the PBS collection Barney & Pals, which ran from 1992 to 2010. Barney & Pals follows Barney, an optimistic and pleasant purple Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys instructional messages by way of music and dance. The collection grew to become a full-blown cultural phenomenon within the Nineteen Nineties, incomes its fair proportion of backlash from older youngsters and adults. Nonetheless, the children who grew up with Barney have a robust sense of nostalgia for the collection and its primary character. Each Kaluuya and Edebiri would have been the goal age for Barney & Pals throughout its authentic airing, portray an image of why these two are excited about reviving the franchise.
‘Barney & Pals’ Is Getting the ‘Barbie’ Therapy
Mattel has been taking steps to revive the Barney franchise for a brand new era of followers. In October 2024, a wholly CGI reboot titled Barney’s World debuted on Max, with Entice‘s Jonathan Langdon voicing the titular dinosaur. The A24 movie from Edebiri and Kaluuya seems to be aimed toward an older viewers who grew up with the unique Barney & Pals, whereas additionally sustaining a family-friendly method. Whereas most moviegoers affiliate A24 with adult-skewing dramas and a few of the hottest horror movies, the studio has a number of family-friendly releases, like 2022’s Marcel the Shell and the upcoming The Legend of Ochi.
Edebiri becoming a member of Barney is an thrilling prospect, significantly since her writing credit on reveals like Huge Mouth, Dickinson, What We Do within the Shadows, and Craig of the Creek paint a unique image than what followers and audiences would possibly count on from a Barney film. Kaluuya, an actor recognized for intense initiatives like Get Out, Nope, and Judas and the Black Messiah, definitely shocked lots of his followers when he determined to place his inventive power behind a Barney film, of all issues. Mattel seems to be to do with Barney what it did with Barbie, placing one in every of its most beloved however usually mocked manufacturers within the arms of proficient creatives with a private connection to the fabric to place their very own spin on it. Edebiri and Kaluuya collaborating on Barney is simply as thrilling a prospect as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie teaming up for Barbie, placing the purple dinosaur’s live-action reboot on our must-see record.
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Barney & Pals
- Launch Date
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1992 – 2009
- Community
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PBS, PBS Children
- Administrators
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Jim Rowley
- Writers
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Stephen White