Barbie: The Screenplay

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

She's everything. He's just Ken. The exclusive screenplay of the film phenomenon by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach.

*Featuring an exclusive introduction by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and 8 pages of full-color photos from the film*

"Greta Gerwig’s bold and inventive Barbie breaks the mold." BBC Culture

"A near-miraculous achievement." Independent

"Brilliant, beautiful, and fun as hell." The New Yorker

For the first time, the BARBIE screenplay is now available in print. Anarchically hilarious and unexpectedly emotional, BARBIE is a magical cinematic confection of absurdity, heart, and Technicolor musicals. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have created a deeply personal and idiosyncratic film from the icon that is the Barbie doll. The movie celebrates the perfection of imperfection, and affirms that everyone, even Allan, is Kenough.

BARBIE™ and associated trademarks and trade dress are owned by, and used under license from, Mattel. ©2023 Mattel.

Review

"A riotously entertaining candy-colored feminist fable." - Guardian

"A near-miraculous achievement." - Independent

"Painfully funny." - Empire

About the Author

Greta Gerwig is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker with a distinctive humor, authentic voice, and singular, personal cinematic vision. Her wholly original, critically acclaimed Barbie, penned with Noah Baumbach and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has become both a worldwide cultural phenomenon and a record-breaking box office success as well as one of the most unique filmgoing experiences in years. Gerwig’s prior film, Little Women, was nominated for six Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and PGA and WGA honors. Her debut film, Lady Bird, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including nominations for Gerwig for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Gerwig is also a prolific actor, who received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Frances Ha, which she co-wrote with Baumbach. Recently she starred in Baumbach’s White Noise. Her additional acting credits include Jackie, Maggie’s Plan, 20th Century Women, Lola versus, Damsels in Distress and Mistress America.

Noah Baumbach is a three-time Academy Award nominated writer and director. His films as a writer and director include White Noise; Marriage Story, which received 6 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and a win for Laura Dern for Best Supporting Actress; The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); While We’re Young; Mistress America; Frances Ha; Greenberg; Margot at the Wedding; The Squid and the Whale, for which Baumbach received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay; Kicking and Screaming; and the documentary De Palma. Alongside Wes Anderson, he co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber (December 19, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571390137
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571390137
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches