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Britney Spears will proceed to inform her personal story. The enduring pop star's bestselling 2023 memoir, The Lady In Me, is being developed as a biopic movie by Common, with Wicked director Jon M. Chu answerable for the venture. Although Chu hasn't gotten too deep into the venture but, he did say that Spears might be a part of the filmmaking course of.
"She's going to be very concerned," Chu instructed Entertainment Tonight on the purple carpet forward of Sunday night time's Golden Globes ceremony. "I haven't actually began something absolutely but, however she might be very concerned on this. I’ve concepts and issues, an method, however it's very early."
Jon M. Chu says his Britney Spears biopic might be about remedy of 'stars that we expect we personal'
Naturally, the information {that a} Spears biopic was in improvement has had the web swirling with potential casting rumors. We at Leisure Weekly have advised Sydney Sweeney, Addison Rae, and Dove Cameron as potential candidates, whereas others on the web favor present pop star Sabrina Carpenter. In all probability, different well-known folks (like Spears' former boyfriend Justin Timberlake or pop rival Christina Aguilera) may also be characters within the film, which prompts additional casting hypothesis. However Chu mentioned that any of these choices are nonetheless a while away.
"I've seen all fan castings and I all the time take these into consideration, as a result of possibly there's a good suggestion on the market," Chu instructed Leisure Tonight. "However we'll must see what the method of the film is earlier than we all know who's proper for it."
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Given Chu's success with Depraved grossing over $600 million worldwide and incomes a slew of award nominations, it's no shock Common tapped him for his or her subsequent music-focused venture. However he additionally has bona fides as a longtime fan of Spears, as he recounted to Billboard in one other purple carpet interview on Sunday.
“I’m a giant fan of Britney. I’ve been a fan since I used to be younger and she or he was younger and she or he was one among 12 acts on the Shrine Auditorium,” Chu instructed Billboard earlier than the Golden Globes. “So I wish to do her justice and inform her story proper. However we’ll see. We’re creating it now and it’s a protracted street forward.”
In spite of everything, Spears is simply 43 years outdated, however has been by quite a bit in that point. The Lady In Me covers not simply her pop music stardom but in addition her sophisticated childhood in Louisiana, her breakthrough function in The Mickey Mouse Membership, and her 13-year conservatorship (which solely just lately ended, making the memoir doable within the first place).
Chu, Spears, and their different collaborators must resolve whether or not they wish to inform an all-encompassing story or concentrate on a particular second in time. The latter method is rising in popularity with musician biopics like A Complete Unknown (which focused on Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan going electrical on the 1965 Newport Folks Pageant) or the upcoming Deliver Me From Nowhere (which is ready to depict the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska quite than his entire profession).
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