A Britney Spears biopic is in the works after Universal Pictures bought the rights to the pop star’s best-selling autobiography, the Hollywood studio announced Thursday. crazy rich asians Director Jon Chu is attached to develop and direct the film based on Spears’ recent autobiographical book the woman inside meUniversal won a “highly competitive auction” for the film adaptation rights, which attracted more than 100 million votes, the company said in a statement to AFP. La la Land It said producer Marc Platt would oversee the project.
Britney Spears herself posted on social media on Thursday, “So excited to share with my fans that I’m working on a secret project with Mark Platt. He has always made some of my favorite movies.”
“Stay tuned,” he told fans. the woman inside me The book traces the troubled singer’s journey from child star to global pop icon, as well as her subsequent public breakdown and legal battles with her father.
The book, full of criticism of an industry that controls its family and ruthlessly destroys talent, sold more than 2.5 million copies in the United States alone after its publication last October.
Britney Spears’ phenomenal early musical success in the late 1990s with hit songs such as …baby One More Time The phenomenon coincides with an aggressive paparazzi culture, which delights in capturing celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan as they party on camera.
In the book, Britney Spears has revealed that Justin Timberlake urged her to have an abortion when she became pregnant during their relationship.
She shared details of her brief but intense relationship with Irish actor and Oscar nominee Colin Farrell, which she described as a “two-week fling.”
After Britney Spears’ public breakdown, she was placed under the conservatorship of her father Jamie Spears, who controlled her money and personal life while she continued to perform high-profile concerts.
In 2021, a Los Angeles court dissolved the conservatorship following a surge of public support to “Free Britney.” Her father has always insisted he was acting in his daughter’s best interests and wanted to protect her from abuse.
No release date has been set for Britney’s film. Universal previously announced a deal to release on hip-hop group N.W.A. (Straight Outta Compton) and rapper Eminem (“8 Mile”)
Chu is also directing Universal’s big-budget two-part film adaptation of the musical. WickedWhose first film will be released in November.
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