Nicolas Winding Refn's (Drive) TV adaptation of Barbarella just nabbed an unexpected pair of writers. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Skyfall, Casino Royale) have been hired to bring this TV show to life. Please please let one episode just be titled "The Excessive Machine."

Science fiction has long encompassed every aspect of human experience — including sex. For as long as we've dreamed of going to space, we've dreamed of getting it on there. And porn has embraced science fiction as well — from 1968's softcore masterpiece Barbarella to the 1990s cyberpunk boom to the recent craze for…

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For every movie that makes it to your local cineplex, there are dozens that never come into existence. In another universe, Mel Gibson directed Fahrenheit 451, Terry Gilliam directed Watchmen, and Batman fought Godzilla. The history of movies is crammed full of weird almost-weres and could-have-beens. A lot of people…

Indie darling Nicolas Winding Refn's next project has us A.) scratching our heads; and B.) very, very excited. Refn will be directing and executive-producing the TV series Barbarella. Oh, Pygar!

More proof that British pop culture is brilliantly nerdy. British TV star Katherine Kelly, who's just ending her stint on Coronation St., did a photoshoot for Britain's Radio Times in which she played Barbarella, as a bartender.

District 9 director Neil Blomkamp's next film could feature a huge star. The Spider-Man reboot casts a super-villain's child, while we learn who won't be in Captain America and The Avengers. Which actress will be the new Barbarella? Spoilers!

Dino De Laurentiis, producer of Barbarella, Army of Darkness, Dune and many other classics, passed away in Los Angeles Thursday morning. He was 91.

We were just feeling nostalgic for Barbarella, when Kim Kardashian unveiled a new photoshoot of herself doing a Jane Fonda pastiche. It's always nice to see space-age fashion back again, but this isn't the Barbarella we were hoping for.

You haven't crossed the final frontier until you've had sex in space. It's the ultimate dream: weightless lovemaking. Here are 11 awesome zero-gravity sex scenes...plus one real-life zero G sexytime moment caught on video.