Hacked Sony mails reveal Margot Robbie frontrunner for real-life Barbie role

Melbourne: The leaked emails of Sony Pictures have revealed that Margot Robbie could play the real-life version of Barbie in a film based around the Mattel toy.

According to hacked mails, Sandra Bullock, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer and Amy Adams are also being considered for her for Robbie's potential sidekick, News.com.au reported.

Doug Belgrad, the president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, wrote that as far as who would play Barbie probably an ingenue, he would like Robbie, for instance or possibly a discovery.

Producer Laurie MacDonald also backed the Australian actress for the lead in an email to former Sony boss Amy Pascal.

According to an email from Hannah Minghella, co-president of production at Sony's Columbia Pictures division, the actress herself was on board to play the real-life doll last May.