Sony Pictures, Mattel and Parkes + MacDonald / Image Nation make a live-action comedy about Barbie. The idea is to tell a contemporary story in which Barbie will use her personal and professional talents to enter the lives of others and to improve them, a kind of modern Mary Poppins.
A first screenplay was written by Diablo Cody but producers did not like it much. They have hired a new team of screenwriters: Lindsey Beer (Transformers 5), Bert Royal (Easy Girl) and Hilary Winston (Bad Teacher: A Bad Teacher).