Known for directing hits like ‘Knocked Up’ and ‘This Is 40’, Judd Apatow recently stepped into the spotlight for a different reason. His vocal disagreement with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the classification of ‘Barbie’ as an adapted screenplay has stirred up a significant conversation in the film industry.
Apatow argues that the film, devoid of pre-existing narrative material, rightfully belongs in the original screenplay category. “It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” the director wrote in his Saturday X post. “There was no existing material or story. There was a clear box."
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