{"id":27576,"date":"2025-09-20T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27576\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:37:08","slug":"pamela-anderson-is-making-a-barb-wire-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27576\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Anderson is making a Barb Wire TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few years have seen pop culture have one of those moments where it looks at itself, gets a little sheepish, and admits something like \u201cWe were really not great to Pamela Anderson, huh?\u201d (Culminating, possibly, in the not wholly respectful treatment she was given in \u201csex tape heist show\u201d Pam & Tommy<\/a>.) Anderson is now, at least, on a career upswing: She got strong reviews for her performance last year in The Last Showgirl<\/a>, and was praised for her comedy work in this year\u2019s\u00a0Naked Gun<\/a>\u00a0revival. Now, she\u2019s apparently dipping back into her filmography to try to revive at least one project that got a serious pummeling at the time: 1996 comic book feature\u00a0Barb Wire.<\/p>\n

Specifically,\u00a0Deadline\u00a0notes<\/a> that Anderson is teaming up with Dark Horse Comics (which published the original\u00a0Barb Wire\u00a0books) and UCP to produce a TV version of the film with her sons, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. (The show is being produced by Anderson\u2019s new production company, punningly called And-Her-Sons Productions.)<\/p>\n

Barb Wire\u00a0was an infamous critical and commercial flop when it came out nearly 30 years ago; some critics (notably Roger Ebert) praised Anderson for bringing some energy to the proceedings, but others came away unimpressed by her delivery, and pretty much everyone agreed that the movie\u2019s Casablanca-but-with-dystopias-and-motorcycle-chases plot was inconsequential and poorly shot. (The film has since taken on something of a cult following.) The TV series will still center on Barbara \u201cBarb Wire\u201d Kopetski, a bounty hunter and nightclub owner in \u201cthe last free city\u201d in America, but is promised to feature \u201ca different feel\u201d from the movie.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Anderson\u2014who won\u2019t star in the show, with no word on a cameo\u2014is keeping busy making the most of her newfound appreciation: She recently completed films with directors Karim A\u00efnouz and Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3, and is on the hook for several others, including Michael Cera directorial debut Love Is Not The Answer.<\/p>\n

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson see some action (not that kind) in The Naked Gun trailer<\/a>Pamela Anderson outshines her own fable in The Last Showgirl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last few years have seen pop culture have one of those moments where it looks at itself,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-27576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}