Barbie almost had the ludicrous scene to end all ludicrous scenes (Picture: Warner Bros)

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie could have been even more bonkers if an, uh, explosive scene she wrote was not written out of the script.

The tale of the Mattel icon has proved a hit with audiences, raking in a whopping $300million (£233m) worldwide during its opening weekend, breaking records as the biggest-ever debut for a movie by a female director.

The pink-hued film sees Margot Robbie star as the titular character alongside Ryan Gosling’s Ken as the pair venture from Barbieland into the real world.

With slapstick comedy, a litany of Easter eggs, and political messages, Barbie also features a number of fabulous musical sequences, including Just Ken which sees the doll struggle with his ‘blonde fragility’ that has been hit with backlash.

As if the film wasn’t weird and wonderful enough, we almost got a very unusual musical number in the form of a ‘fart opera’.

According to Gerwig, the scene was a casualty of the editing process which saw it cut from the final product – which will either devastate fans or have them breathing a sigh of relief.

The film sees Margot Robbie appear at Barbie (Picture: Paul Hennessy)

It features a number of musical sequences, including an iconic routine with Ryan Gosling’s Ken (Picture: Jaap Buitendijk)

And it turns out the film could have been a whole lot weirder director Greta Gerwig has revealed (Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Speaking to IndieWire, the director and her producer Nick Houy explained how the joke they tried to sneak through all three of their collaborations – including Little Women and Lady Bird – hadn’t come to fruition.

‘We’ve always tried to get in a proper fart joke and we’ve never done it,’ Gerwig said. ‘We had like a fart opera in the middle [of Barbie]. I thought it was really funny. And that was not the consensus.’

‘It was in the wrong place, too,’ Houy said. ‘We need to work it into a more significant narrative moment next time.’

It comes as Barbie producers announced their plans to launch a Mattel franchise bringing more nostalgic toys to the big screen.

Mattel’s new CEO Ynon Kreiz opened up to Variety about the film’s future and said: ‘Barbie, as a brand, has many different iterations. 

‘The product lines of Barbie is a very broad brand. In addition to the main Barbie figure, she has family, she has a lot of elements around in her universe. 

‘It’s a very rich universe… It’s a very broad and very elastic brand, in terms of opportunities.

‘At the outset, we’re not saying, “Okay, let’s think already about movie two and three.

‘“Let’s get the first one right and make that a success”. And if you do that, opportunities open up very quickly, once you establish the first movie as a successful representation of a franchise on the big screen.’

Barbie is available to watch in cinemas now.

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