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No Rose for Barbarella

Posted Oct 24th 2007 10:59AM by TMZ Staff

Universal Studios has taken one giant leap back from backing the remake of "Barbarella." The movie, which was set to be directed by "Sin City" boss Robert Rodriguez, was also set to star his new fiancee, Rose McGowan.

A source tells the NY Observer's Transom the studio was unhappy about the casting choice, and when Robert refused to find someone else, the studio's only option was to drop the deal altogether. A Rose by any other name -- will not do!

Rodriguez has denied these claims and said that the reason for the parting of ways was all about budget, saying that the original backing offered by Universal was $60 million, but by shooting time, costs had ballooned to $72 million.

TMZ contacted reps for McGowan and Rodriguez, but have yet to receive comment.

Tags: barbarella, robert rodriguez, RobertRodriguez, rose mcgowan, RoseMcgowan, universal studios, UniversalStudios

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1. Perez had this last week.

Also, who the hell cares?

Posted at 12:38PM on Oct 24th 2007 by abj

2. Why remake an already bad movie?

Posted at 12:52PM on Oct 24th 2007 by TBA

3. If true, great move by Universal. McGowen is one of the last actresses that I would ever consider for that role. IMO, McGowen is a marginal actress at best. You need a tall, stacked, beautiful woman to play Barbarella.

Posted at 1:00PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Noodles

4. Shes not pretty or sexy enuff for the role of Barbarella!!

Posted at 12:58PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Tiki

5. Oh PLease hire Britney Spears ! she would be perfect for the role !

Posted at 1:10PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Luv Brit

6. Jeez...Another story that Perez had last week.....TMZ is starting to suck

Posted at 1:15PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Case

7. Why does Rudy Giuliani want to bring back the draft?

Posted at 1:15PM on Oct 24th 2007 by DENNIS I.

8. Remaking Barberella is a horrible idea.

That was a cool movie for its time but let it be. Come on Holywood, has the well run that dry?

Posted at 1:31PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Jusin B

9. Didn't Rose have a lot of plastic surgery that changed the look of her face? Correct me if I am wrong.

Posted at 1:46PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Wednesday

10. Maybe Botox wasnt included in the budget!

Posted at 2:07PM on Oct 24th 2007 by val

11. Rose McGowan is a husband snatcher slut !!

She will destroy his career!!!

Posted at 2:13PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Kimmy

12. Rose is too old, haggard and wonky faced to do this. Jane Fonda hated making the exploitive vulgar movie. Even if you added the creature of the black lagoon as a comic- romantic interest for Rose it wouldn't work.

Posted at 3:08PM on Oct 24th 2007 by PunkXmas

13. Regarding all the McGowan/Rodriguez stories: why is everyone blaming ONLY the female (in this case, Rose McGowan) for the breakup of Rodriguez's marriage? Doesn't he take some responsibility in that area? If he didn't want to leave his wife, then NO WOMAN could have "seduced" him away. There are plenty of men who are VERY tempted but they say no because they are truly in love with and committed to their wives. Rodriguez obviously had problems in his marriage to begin with. Not saying that sleeping with a married man is the best way to go, and I'm not particularly a RM fan, but there shouldn't be this double standard of "the woman is always the homewrecker".

Posted at 3:26PM on Oct 24th 2007 by WTF?

14. Rose is a has-been who had too much plastic surgery. Those idiots are imdb.com think that she is going to get the part fort the new Wonder Woman movie. Yeah, right. lol

Posted at 3:21PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Mireya

15. She will be walking Sunset Blvd. within a year.

Posted at 3:24PM on Oct 24th 2007 by Kendra

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