‘Barbie’ fans recall Amy Schumer once cast as lead: ‘Dodged a bullet’

nypost.com:

trainwreck.Shortly after this week’s premiere of the highly anticipated trailer for the live-action “Barbie” movie — featuring Margot Robbie, 32, as the iconic doll herself and Ryan Gosling, 42, as “just Ken” — fans on Twitter recalled the film’s early days, when Amy Schumer was announced as co-writer and lead doll.The dream didn’t last long.Three months later, in March 2017, the 41-year-old comedian revealed she had to leave the Sony Pictures project due to “scheduling conflicts” — which she later admitted wasn’t the full reason for her departure. “They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” Schumer claimed to The Hollywood Reporter about Sony in March 2022.

At the time, Schumer’s script was described as “a fish-out-of-water tale about a woman (Schumer) who gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough.”The “Trainwreck” star reported that her vision was for Barbie to be an inventor — to which the studio allegedly requested that her invention be a high heel made out of Jell-O.She added that studio execs gifted her a pair of Manolo Blahniks to celebrate her taking on the gig. “The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,'” she recalled.The Post has contacted reps for Schumer and Sony for comment. “Barbie” moved to its current studio, Warner Bros.

Pictures, in October 2018, and Robbie’s casting was confirmed in July 2019.Two years later, Greta Gerwig, 39, signed on as the movie’s director.The film’s synopsis now reads: “After being expelled from Barbieland for being a less-than-perfect-looking doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness.”Now, fans on Twitter.