Beware some NSFW imagery below.
Planet-hopping, nudity-embracing space mercenary Barbarella, heroine of Jean-Claude Forest’s 1960s comic books, could be coming to TV.
“Drive” helmer Nick Refn is directing the pilot for the same team that is mounting NBC’s “Hannibal”: Martha De Laurentiis and French production company Gaumont.
No American channel is yet involved.
The character got her start in a 1962 issue of V-Magazine, then got super-famous when director Roger Vadim cast his wife, Jane Fonda, in the 1968 movie version.
The Bongos started singing about her in 1983. This makes me very happy:
