Children’s characters have entered the world of film lately. Months ago, Winnie The Pooh shifted from children’s television to the horror genre with the release of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Looking ahead, Barney is also set to receive a theatrical feature led by Academy Award Winner Daniel Kaluuya. Details regarding the plot of the project remain unclear, but film executive, Kevin McKeon, has offered more insight into what viewers can expect when it does hit theaters.
“We’re leaning into the millennial angst of the property rather than fine-tuning this for kids,” he told The New Yorker.
“It’s really a play for adults. Not that it’s R-rated, but it’ll focus on some of the trials and tribulations of being thirtysomething, growing up with Barney—just the level of disenchantment within the generation.”
Kaluuya recently appeared in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and is expected to return for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse next year. In the meantime, his Barney-focused project remains in development until further notice.
“Scripts got to be good, innit? Do you know what I mean? It’s in development. I mean, like I got– I ask for higher standards for anything I work on,” he said in June when asked about the film.
“I mean, so I’m producing that one. So we’re still in. We’re still in. We’re still developing it.”
