The beloved but troubled singer Britney Spears has reportedly scored her own biopic, which will be based on her bestselling memoir The Woman In Me.
Spears Biopic Officially In The Work
Universal Pictures has announced that it has secured the rights to Spears’ hugely successful 2023 memoir after a “highly competitive auction.” The film will be directed by the Wicked director Jon M. Chu, and is set to be produced by Marc Platt.
No details about casting have been released at this time, but the choices are sure to inevitably be controversial!
“Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with #MarcPlatt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned,” Spears, 42, wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Spears’ Memoir
Spears’ memoir was released on October 24, 2023. She used it to chronicle her rise to fame, past relationships, conservatorship experience, and more.
“This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it,” Spears previously said. “Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook.”
The memoir sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone.
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Bad News For Justin Timberlake
One person who will not be happy about this upcoming biopic is Justin Timberlake, who is negatively portrayed in The Woman In Me. Spears and Timberlake dated from dated from 1999 until 2o02. In her book, Spears claims that Timberlake pressured her to have an abortion because he “didn’t want to be a father.”
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” Spears wrote of her alleged pregnancy. “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.”
“But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” she continued. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
Spears claimed that she would not have gotten an abortion had Timberlake not convinced her to do so.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father,” she added. “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
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Spears Freed From Conservatorship
Spears was freed from her infamous conservatorship in November of 2021 after thirteen years. She has since said that she “never will” return to the music industry, and instead prefers to ghostwrite songs for other artists.
These days, Spears typically only surfaces when she posts videos to Instagram of herself dancing while wearing very little clothing. These videos have caused some fans to fear for Spears’ wellbeing, but she has repeatedly tried to reassure the public that she is fine and happy.
The role of Spears in this biopic is sure to be one of the most coveted in Hollywood. It will certainly be interesting to see who gets to play her!
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