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Greta Gerwig: New Writing Process Is Giving Her "Recurring Nightmares"

Barbie writer and director Greta Gerwig has said that her current process as "it’s hard because I’m having recurring nightmares."

Greta Gerwig is having an excellent year, and that is something no one can take away from her. We all knew that Barbie was going to be massive, but no one thought it would be the cultural juggernaut it has turned into. No one thought people would still be talking about this movie months later, that it would take over the box office for weeks at a time, that it would spark entire discussions within families about dynamics and get a lot of men over themselves and wearing a lot of pink [we love that for them, real men wear pink proudly]. If anyone deserves some time to take a victory lap, it's Gerwig and her team, but we know there is no rest for anyone in Hollywood. Gerwig is already signed on to direct two movies based on the Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix, but that might not be the only thing she's working on. While speaking at the BFI London Film Festival (via The Hollywood Reporter) over the weekend, Gerwig briefly teased her next project.

"I'm in the writing process," she admitted, "and it's hard because I'm having recurring nightmares."

Here's the thing, though: saying she is having nightmares doesn't mean she is working on something dark. For a writer, a reoccurring nightmare could be something as simple as waking up every night to a dream that every copy of your screenplay or whatever you are working on has vanished into thin air, and somehow, so has every backup you've ever made. Gerwig clearly puts a lot of herself into her writing, so it's not surprising that she could be working on Narnia right now, and it is giving her nightmares. Back in July, during the height of the Barbie press tour, Gerwig told Total Film that the prospect of stepping into C.S. Lewis's world terrified her.

"I don't know," Gerwig says. "I haven't even really started wrapping my arms around it. But I'm properly scared of it, which feels like a good place to start. I think when I'm scared, it's always a good sign. Maybe when I stop being scared, it'll be like, 'Okay. Maybe I shouldn't do that one.' No, I'm terrified of it. It's extraordinary. And so we'll see, I don't know."

So it's unclear what project Gerwig is working on that is giving her nightmares or what those nightmares might entail, but as someone who once had that "all of my writing has vanished into thin air" multiple times, I get it.

Barbie: Summary, Cast List, Release Date

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.

From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird) comes Barbie, starring Oscar-nominees Margot Robbie (Bombshell, I, Tonya) and Ryan Gosling (La La Land, Half Nelson) as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera (End of Watch, the How to Train Your Dragon films), Kate McKinnon (Bombshell, Yesterday), Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Juno), Ariana Greenblatt (Avengers: Infinity War, 65), Issa Rae (The Photograph, Insecure), Rhea Perlman (I'll See You in My Dreams, Matilda), and Will Ferrell (the Anchorman films, Talladega Nights). The film also stars Ana Cruz Kayne (Little Women), Emma Mackey (Emily, Sex Education), Hari Nef (Assassination Nation, Transparent), Alexandra Shipp (the X-Men films), Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami, Peaky Blinders), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), Jamie Demetriou (Cruella), Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Emma), Sharon Rooney (Dumbo, Jerk), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls), Ritu Arya (The Umbrella Academy), Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen). Gerwig directed Barbie from a screenplay by Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, The Squid and the Whale), based on Barbie by Mattel. The film's producers are Oscar nominee David Heyman (Marriage Story, Gravity), Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner, with Michael Sharp, Josey McNamara, Ynon Kreiz, Courtenay Valenti, Toby Emmerich, and Cate Adams serving as executive producers. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters only nationwide on July 21, 2023, and beginning internationally on July 19, 2023.

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