So apparently there was some kind of big awards show or some such in Hollywood over the weekend. You may or may not have heard something about it. In any case, during one of those shindigs that only celebrities are invited to, the original Barbarella herself, Jane Fonda finally met the dishy Kate Bosworth, and made this proclamation:

Will horror master John Carpenter come down from his horror perch to helm the long-gestating, oft-delayed remake of “Barbarella”? That’s the story currently being pedaled by British tabloid The Sun. On the face of it, it’s not so “out there”, as Carpenter has already directed sci-fi before, most recently the horror-sci-fi hybrid “Ghosts of Mars”.

For a campy and mostly forgettable sci-fi movie (at least if you’re into sci-fi, not so much if you’re into watching a young Jane Fonda slink around the screen in various stages of half-dress), a lot of people sure seems interested in resurrecting space mercenary Barbarella. The latest news has producer Dino De Laurentiis finally getting this thing ready to shoot.

And I stress the word “may”, because frankly, like a lot of movies with Robert Rodriguez’s name attached to it at one point or another, a proposed remake of Jane Fonda’s 1968 cheesy sci-fi flick “Barbarella” has been talked about often, but nothing has ever come off it. Now with Rodriguez declaring that he’s permanently off the remake (a problem with the Germans, apparently), has producer Dino De Laurentiis found a replacement?