Just caught this lovely article about how Sharon Stone pitched a 'Barbie' film in the '90s - and she was laughed out of the studio:
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/sharon-stone-studios-laughed...
Whatever you're working on - if you love it, keep circling back around! Some day, the world will be ready for it!
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Thanks for sharing the article and inspiration, Karen "Kay" Ross. I was just thinking about this for some of my older short scripts. I rewrote some of them today since I know more about screenwriting now than I knew when I wrote them. I think I'll get more responses now that I rewrote them.
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Yep, my plan. Hang around for 30-40 years, outlast last crop of execs who were fired/retired, pitch same idea to new crop of execs.
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without money and connections, it is difficult to implement any projects. I think every screenwriter has faced the fact that his ideas were treated with skepticism.
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Thanks for sharing this cool article Karen "Kay" Ross
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Sharon Stone s name was mostly associated with her over sexualized role in the Basic Instinct . Times changed even for Hollywood.
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Oof, I so needed to hear this today. Thank you. LOL
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breaks my heart. Sharon Stone would've been an amazing Barbie!!!
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WOW! What a horrible circumstance. Something tells me that with the EARTH-SHATTERING success of Barbie, her sense of dread / lost opportunity must be immense! Damn! How do you dust yourself off after THAT??!!
Down at Barbie Headquarters:
Guys, may I introduced the Queen of our new 'smart barbie' line called "Sharon"; for all of you 'Grown Up Movies... ehh ...Girls". Of course all models with removable brain that comes with the certificate "Hannibal prove," so you can take it out during dinner, admire it, while you devour your Cervelle de veau.
All dolls with Serial number "154".
Bon appetit!
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Goes to show not just the importance of timing but how times change. You have to ask yourself if a Barbie movie was wanted by a significant audience back then, which is all the studios would have been relaying. If anything, it was probably a better time for female action stars.
There's not much detail in the article. I wonder if she pitched it before or after the success of Clueless.
Stone was seen as a sex symbol by the public indeed, and in a time when that was very much looked down on. She was (and still is) highly respected by the industry though, as she's Mensa level smart apparently. She's one of the few people who challenged Joe Eszterhas on an intellectual level.