You just can’t keep a good space girl down. First, the remake of Jane Fonda’s 1968 campfest Barbarella rises from the ashes of Robert Rodriguez’s now-defunct $70 million Heavy Metal-meets-Star Wars vision; then the newly resurrected Barbarella scores a fairly good director in the form of Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, 21). Now comes word that Barbarella has snagged a writer named…Joe Gazzam?

Never heard of him? Me either. And, according to his (brief) IMDB resume, neither has anyone…yet.

We reported last month that Robert Rodriguez’s remake of Barbarella was dead. The reason, stated by Rodriguez himself, was that the German company that was putting up the whopping $70 million for the movie wanted him to shoot the film in Germany, which meant him spending a long time away from his kids. Rodriguez said he just couldn’t do that, and decided to move onto other things.

However, those who still want a Barbarella remake, even without Rodriguez at the helm, need not fret: It looks like a new director is being eyed for the project.

Robert Rodriguez is one of those directors who is going to be exceptionally busy with the amount of stuff he has coming up. He has his first ever venture into the sci-fi genre with a film called Nerverackers due out next year, he has his full-length version of Machete in development, and then there’s his reboot of the Predator franchise retitled Predators (although he’s not actually directing it, he’ll still be heavily involved). If he’s to satisfy fan demand, he’ll also get going with the sequel to Sin City as well, even though he’s said it’ll be a long way away.