Somehow arriving perfectly in between the numerous months when “Barbenheimer” was all that anybody wanted to talk about on the internet, and Oscars season, which will inevitably revive the conversation surrounding the accidental double feature—really landing in a sort of perfect lacuna of interest—B-movie master Charles Band has announced that he’s making an actual Barbenheimer movie of his own. The Puppet Masterall of them some flavor of cheap—publicized the upcoming mash-up idea at the American Film Market this weekend.
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The movie, unsurprisingly, will focus on living dolls, who go out into the real world, find out how we treat our playthings, and decide to invent their own nukes to exact retribution. And if you want to gauge the level of comedy at play here, please contemplate the tagline “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” and the fact that the main characters will be “Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer” and her boyfriend, “Twink Dollman.” Truly, Charles Band has become death, destroyer of subtext.
Ironically, the most charming thing about the whole endeavor is how shameless Band himself is about what he’s up to, telling THRBarbieOppenheimer.“But it’s also,” he adds, “An opportunity to have fun with the bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe and the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor.” (He’s also putting up what is, for Charles Band, an enormous amount of money for the production, with a budget expected to get close to the million-dollar mark.)
Barbenheimer will apparently release some time in 2024.