‘Barbie’ fans recall Amy Schumer once cast as lead: ‘Dodged a bullet’

They think it could have been a trainwreck.

Shortly after this week’s premiere of the highly anticipated trailer for the live-action “Barbie” movie — featuring Margot Robbie, 32, as the iconic doll herself and Ryan Gosling, 42, as “just Ken” — fans on Twitter recalled the film’s early days, when Amy Schumer was announced as co-writer and lead doll.

The dream didn’t last long.

Three months later, in March 2017, the 41-year-old comedian revealed she had to leave the Sony Pictures project due to “scheduling conflicts” — which she later admitted wasn’t the full reason for her departure.

“They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” Schumer claimed to The Hollywood Reporter about Sony in March 2022.

At the time, Schumer’s script was described as “a fish-out-of-water tale about a woman (Schumer) who gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough.”

The “Trainwreck” star reported that her vision was for Barbie to be an inventor — to which the studio allegedly requested that her invention be a high heel made out of Jell-O.

She added that studio execs gifted her a pair of Manolo Blahniks to celebrate her taking on the gig.

“The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,’” she recalled.

The Post has contacted reps for Schumer and Sony for comment.

“Barbie” moved to its current studio, Warner Bros. Pictures, in October 2018, and Robbie’s casting was confirmed in July 2019.

Two years later, Greta Gerwig, 39, signed on as the movie’s director.

The film’s synopsis now reads: “After being expelled from Barbieland for being a less-than-perfect-looking doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness.”

Now, fans on Twitter think it’s “just a little funny” that Schumer could’ve slipped into Robbie’s already-iconic pink heels.

“I cannot think of a logical explanation for why amy schumer almost played barbie,” one wrote.

“Remember when Amy Schumer was going to play Barbie in the Barbie Movie, damn we dodged a bullet,” another penned.

“Absolutely no one else could’ve been casted as barbie (and ken) i don’t wanna hear that amy schumer nonsense anymore,” one fan commented alongside stills from the trailer.

Other users stuck up for Schumer, claiming haters couldn’t picture her as Barbie because of her body type.

The actress stated in her 2017 Netflix special, “Amy Schumer: The Leather Special,” that “I’m what Hollywood calls ‘very fat.’”

“IDK why but all those tweets about amy schumer not playing barbie smell laced with um fatphobia,” one fan argued.

“I don’t like amy schumer but she was attached to an entirely different barbie project and i don’t love that every time someone tweets this most of the replies are just appalled that she’s not attractive/thin enough to be barbie,” another insisted.

“It’s so annoying that this is brought up any time there’s any mention of Greta Gerwig’s #Barbie bc a) Amy Schumer’s Barbie was going to be a completely different movie and b) whether you like her or not, body-shaming is gross as f-ck and that’s all that tweets like this lead to,” a third added.

“Amy schumer wouldn’t have been great as barbie not bc of what she looks like, but bc she subscribes to the idea that pink and beauty and traditional femininity cannot be traits of a powerful woman,” another weighed in.

“Barbie” hits theaters July 21. The all-star cast includes Kate McKinnon, Dua Lipa, Nicola Coughlan, Alexandra Shipp, Ritu Arya, Hari Nef and more.