This is not an “SNL” sketch: Mattel is making an American Girl live-action movie

Somebody get Ana de Armas on the phone.

The executives over at Mattel just might be taking cues from Ana de Armas' grim American Girl sketch on Saturday Night Live, because a live-action feature film about the historical dolls is on the way.

Following the success of Greta Gerwig's summer blockbuster Barbie, Mattel has partnered with Paramount Pictures for a film about the iconic doll line with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, Sierra Burgess is a Loser) attached to write the screenplay and produce.

The American Girl doll line launched in 1986 and features girls from different time periods throughout history. The first three dolls — Samantha, Kirsten, and Molly — were from the World War II era, with the inclusion of diversity coming in 1993 with the introduction of Addy Walker, the first Black American Girl doll.

“Growing up, my sister and I were American Girl girls," Anderson Beer said in a statement. "I had Kirsten, and she had Molly. They didn't feel like dolls to play with, rather real people whose worlds we got to imagine ourselves in. They are historically accurate toys and accessories that feature elaborate and immersive backstories uniquely suited to bring to screen."

"I am so excited to tell a story that tackles the issues of girlhood in a real and compelling way, and proud to partner with Mattel Films, Paramount Pictures, and Temple Hill to create the American Girl movie I have wanted to see since childhood," Anderson Beer added.

More than a dozen Mattel properties are in development for the big screen following the boom of Gerwig and Margot Robbie's Barbie, including a Polly Pocket film directed by Lena Dunham and starring Lily Collins and a Barney movie produced by Daniel Kaluuya. (Yes, really.)

As for that viral SNL sketch released earlier this year, de Armas played a doll opposite Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Molly Kearney, and Sarah Sherman plagued by a harrowing backstory and various ailments, including cholera. "Not all dolls live in a Dreamhouse," the skit's voiceover says, spoofing the Gerwig flick.

"Did all their family members die of old-timey diseases?" the voiceover later asks. "Absolutely." When Sherman's doll dies from cholera, de Armas and Co. embark on a journey from American Girl Land to the Modern World in an old-fashioned covered wagon before Gardner's doll ultimately succumbs to the same fate as Sherman's doll.

Good luck topping that, Mattel!

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