Lena Dunham to Direct Polly Pocket Film Starring Lily Collins

Prepare for a Mattel Cinematic Universe. Due to the record-breaking success of Barbie, the toy firm is trying to produce a number of extra films primarily based its merchandise, together with a Polly Pocket movie from writer-director Lena Dunham starring Lily Collins.

Mattel Movies producer Robbie Brenner confirmed the information to Selection, revealing {that a} script for the undertaking has already been submitted (although declining to share any plot particulars). “To begin with, they’re two of my favourite girls ever,” Brenner mentioned of Dunham (of Ladies fame) and Collins (Emily in Paris). “It’s been an incredible collaboration. Lena is so collaborative and rolls up her sleeves and actually likes to roll round in notes and pay attention. She’s unimaginable. Lily is so good and so particular and so productorial. It’s simply been an unimaginable collaboration, so we’re thrilled about it. Hopefully, we’ll be making that in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.”

Although much less storied and controversial than Barbie, Polly Pocket has been a profitable Mattel line because the Eighties, providing children miniature rubber wardrobes that, very similar to Bizarre Barbie, had been excellent for roughhousing (and even chewing, we admit). The model has since spun off into a number of animated movies, an online sequence, and an animated TV present.

Polly Pocket isn’t the one toy Mattel hopes to capitalize on in a movie trade obsessive about recognizable IP. Daniel Kaluuya is ready to helm a Barney film, whereas J.J. Abrams guarantees to show Scorching Wheels into an “emotional and grounded and gritty” film. As for a Barbie sequel? With its field workplace numbers, Mattel is probably going able to log off on a brand new movie, however Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie may not be connected if it involves fruition.