Mattel Is Bringing American Girl Dolls To The Big Screen After The Success Of 'Barbie'
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Mattel Films, Paramount Pictures, and Temple Hill Entertainment announced this week that they have plans to develop a live-action American Girl movie. This announcement comes after the global success of Mattel’s Barbie Movie from director Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, which recently earned a record-breaking 18 Critics Choice Awards and 9 Golden Globes nominations.
School teacher Pleasant Rowland created Pleasant Company in 1986 to have a line of dolls for girls to teach them about accurate history and be role models, not being afraid to delve into the deeper, harder topics such as slavery, loss of a parent, and war. In 1998, Mattel acquired Pleasant Company, re-named it American Girl, and has been continuing to make dolls with all sorts of stories from historical characters ranging from 1764 to 1999 and their Girl of the Year line which features stories from the present. They also have the Truly Me and Bitty Baby dolls and a newer line called Wellie Wishers.
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This is not the first time that Mattel and American Girl have made films together. The first one came out in November 2004 and featured Samantha, from 1904, as the main character. They went on to make a Felicity and Molly American Girl movie respectively along with a Kit American Girl movie, which was the first and only one released in theaters and featured many A-list actors. Several movies have also been made about previous Girls of the Years.
Most of the previous films were released through Warner Brothers on television, straight to DVD, or Amazon Prime Video. This announcement indicates that this film will be a theatrical release, like Barbie, and is vying for the same success. They have already signed Lindsey Anderson Beer, who recently directed Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, to write the script and produce the film. Beer is excited for the project stating that: “Growing up, my sister and I were American Girl girls. I had Kirsten, and she had Molly. They didn’t feel like dolls to play with, but real people whose worlds we got to imagine ourselves in. They are historically accurate toys and accessories that feature elaborate and immersive backstories uniquely suited to bring to screen.”
The movie is being overseen by Kevin McKeon and Ivan Sanchez through Mattel films, Vanessa Joyce at Paramount, and Isaac Klausner, Laura Quicksilver, and Annika Patton at Temple Hill.
While we don’t know what this movie will entail yet, it will be fascinating to watch its development as it joins the queue of movies that Mattel Films has in store from their other toy lines.
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