{"id":2129456,"date":"2025-11-01T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129456"},"modified":"2025-11-01T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:06:07","slug":"will-this-strange-barney-parody-overshadow-the-upcoming-a24-like-iteration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-this-strange-barney-parody-overshadow-the-upcoming-a24-like-iteration\/","title":{"rendered":"Will This Strange Barney Parody Overshadow the Upcoming A24-Like Iteration?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was recently announced that Daniel Kaluuya<\/a> will star in an upcoming adult version of Barney<\/a>. This was a confusing statement due to the fact that many people thought the film had already been made.<\/p>\n

Death to Smoochy<\/a> was a Danny DeVito<\/a>-directed film from 2002, and it skewered Barney better than anyone else could. So why does Daniel Kaluuya think he can do better?<\/p>\n

Danny DeVito Is a Powerhouse<\/p>\n

Danny DeVito has been in the public consciousness for decades. Right now, he is primarily known for playing Frank Reynolds<\/a> on It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/a>. Famously, he was added to the series when the studio insisted the show add a big-name star to help declining ratings. This allowed the show to continue, and has not stopped since.<\/p>\n

Related: 10 Movies You Might Not Have Known Were Produced by Danny DeVito<\/p>\n

But DeVito<\/a> has also been the driving force behind the scenes…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was recently announced that Daniel Kaluuya will star in an upcoming adult version of Barney. This was a confusing statement due to the fact that many people thought the film had already been made. Death to Smoochy was a Danny DeVito-directed film from 2002, and it skewered Barney better than anyone else could. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2129456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Will-This-Strange-Barney-Parody-Overshadow-the-Upcoming-A24-Like-Iteration.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129458,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129456\/revisions\/2129458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}