Britney Spears is set to have a hands-on role in the making of the biopic based on her best-selling memoir, "The Woman In Me" ... according to the highly-anticipated film's director Jon M. Chu.
via: EW
The iconic pop star's bestselling 2023 memoir, The Woman In Me, is being developed as a biopic film by Universal, with Wicked director Jon M. Chu in charge of the project. Though Chu hasn't gotten too deep into the project yet, he did say that Spears will be part of the filmmaking process.
"She's going to be very involved," Chu told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet ahead of Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony. "I haven't really started anything fully yet, but she will be very involved in this. I have ideas and things, an approach, but it's very early."
Naturally, the news that a Spears biopic was in development has had the internet swirling with potential casting rumors. We at Entertainment Weekly have suggested Sydney Sweeney, Addison Rae, and Dove Cameron as potential candidates, while others on the internet favor current pop star Sabrina Carpenter. In all likelihood, other famous people (like Spears' former boyfriend Justin Timberlake or pop rival Christina Aguilera) will also be characters in the movie, which prompts further casting speculation. But Chu said that any of those decisions are still some time away.
"I've seen all fan castings and I always take those into consideration, because maybe there's a good idea out there," Chu told Entertainment Tonight. "But we'll have to see what the approach of the movie is before we know who's right for it."
Given Chu's success with Wicked grossing over $600 million worldwide and earning a slew of award nominations, it's no surprise Universal tapped him for their next music-focused project. But he also has bona fides as a longtime fan of Spears, as he recounted to Billboard in another red carpet interview on Sunday.
“I’m a big fan of Britney. I’ve been a fan since I was young and she was young and she was one of 12 acts at the Shrine Auditorium,” Chu told Billboard before the Golden Globes. “So I want to do her justice and tell her story right. But we’ll see. We’re developing it now and it’s a long road ahead.”
After all, Spears is only 43 years old, but has been through a lot in that time. The Woman In Me covers not just her pop music stardom but also her complicated childhood in Louisiana, her breakthrough role in The Mickey Mouse Club, and her 13-year conservatorship (which only recently ended, making the memoir possible in the first place).
Chu, Spears, and their other collaborators will have to decide whether they want to tell an all-encompassing story or focus on a specific moment in time. The latter approach is becoming more popular with musician biopics like A Complete Unknown (which concentrated on Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival) or the upcoming Deliver Me From Nowhere (which is set to depict the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska rather than his whole career).
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