After endless delays, the first production from Mattel Films, a live-action Barbie-themed movie starring Margot Robbie, is about to hit movie theaters in just a few more months. The full trailer just came out, so after watching it, I wondered: what would a big-budget American Girl theatrical movie like Barbie's new movie be like?
The new Barbie movie is taking a more unexpected and avant-garde look into the life of a Barbie doll who lives in her own world, but is forced to visit the real human world. However, there's one problem for taking that approach for American Girl: the dolls have their own book characters. They don't know they're dolls. There are several existential issues that need to be introduced in the lore, if we take Molly being a mere character in Courtney's world and Isabel and Nicki having American Girl of Today merch for granted. American Girl has gotten around this issue before with movies about one character, but if American Girl wanted to make an theatrical movie, I feel like making a movie about multiple dolls would work better.
I came up with a concept with one last year while watching the Mattel investor presentation of 2022. It's similar to the concept American Girl used with the American Girl Live show, with dolls coming to life at a American Girl-themed summer camp. However, I feel like if a real girl went to her dolls's world, and traveled through each doll world of the original American Girl dolls, such as Samantha, Kirsten, Molly, Felicity, Addy, Josefina, Kit and Kaya, it would be easier to pull off than the dolls going to the real world. Heck, maybe there could be an epic team up scene at the end of the movie where the dolls meet up!
Anyway, I feel like whatever concept AG wants to inevitably go with, I want to be involved with the American Girl movie. I can write it, direct it, or both, but the point is, I don't think there's another filmmaker in the industry that loves AG as much as I do!
I would honestly want a movie that stays true to the books for a change. AG has already had several movies already, including one theatrical release, but there's still some they haven't done. I always wanted a historical epic movie of some kind. Kaya's especially would be good or Addy's. At the end of the day, what I like about AG is the educational value and the history, which is different from Barbie in that way.
I'm still waiting on the Corinne movie they never released. Is it cancelled?
Saturday night live actually did a fake trailer for American girl after the Barbie one came out related to it 😂
P.S. If you are younger don’t look up Saturday Night Live. For everyone else it was humorous.
I think that remember reading somewhere that an American Girl doll movie is in development already. We'll see how that goes. I wonder if it'll be like this Lindsey Lohan movie called Life sized, where a girl's Barbie like doll comes to life. I'm surprised no one on yt has done something like this with Courtney and Molly.
Could always do Conen’s pitch. Time travel team up.
Presuming they decided to go meta instead of doing specific book adaptions or retellings like the previous films they’ve done, I could see them having a character go through time, the characters get displaced in other times (for example, Felicity sent to the 40s, Melody transported to the 20s, Kit going to 1812 or something, etc). I could also see them taking a few characters and making them related, with a descendent traveling back to their time.