Robert Rodriguez has left the beleaguered Barbarella remake after the studio refused to cast his fiancée, former TV witch and current homewrecker Rose McGowan, as the main character. We’re actually more sorry to see McGowan off the project than Rodriguez, but she probably wouldn’t have been so damned va-va-voom in Planet Terror without him being behind the camera, so it probably is a package deal. More importantly: Wasn’t Jane Fonda married to Roger Vadim when he directed the original? Seems like Universal missed a whole PR angle here.
At any rate, this reminds us: Should the original Barbarella be considered in our Hottest/Worst contest?