Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” gearing up for box office domination, so the new movie is planned as a launching pad for Mattel Films.

The studio has dozens of more films in the pipeline based on its toys and popular IP, including Barney movie with Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya.

The Judas Oscar winner and the Get Out Oscar nominee and Us star attached himself to Mattel’s Barney movie in 2019.

A new profile of Mattel Films published by The New Yorker confirms the project remains in development.

Mattel Films executive Kevin McKeon told The New Yorker that the Barney movie is “surrealistic” and in the vein of films directed by Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Those directors are probably not the first two filmmakers one thinks of when the family-friendly Barney name comes up.

McKeon also described the Barney movie as an “A24-type” movie, adding, “It would be so daring of us, and really underscore that we’re here to make art.”

When the project first got announced in November 2019, Mattel Films’ Robbie Brenner said that working with Kaluuya would allow the studio “to take a completely new approach to ‘Barney’ that will surprise audiences and subvert expectations.”

Updates on the project have been scarce in the years since. Kaluuya told Yahoo  earlier this year it was taking time to crack the perfect script.

“The script’s gotta be good, you know what I mean? It’s in development,” Kaluuya said. “I ask for high standards on anything that I work on, and I’m producing this one, so it’s still in development.”