Britney Spears | Photo credit: Chiang Ying-ying
Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to the singer’s best-selling memoir ‘The Woman in Me’ following a competitive auction.
Pop star Britney Spears is set to have a biopic made, with John M Chu as director and Marc Platt as producer. Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to the singer’s bestselling memoir the woman inside me following a competitive auction.
Spears, 42, had recently hinted about the biopic via her ‘X’ handle, where she announced a “secret project” with producer Marc Platt.
In the book, which Spears published last year, the singer honestly describes her early stardom, her relationship with Justin Timberlake, her marriage and the infamous conservatorship that gave authority over her finances and well-being to her father, Jamie Spears.
The singer rose to fame when her two albums “Baby One More Time” (1999) and “Oops!… I Did It Again” (2000) became the best-selling studio album releases of the time. She later worked on the albums “In the Zone” (2003), “Circus” (2008) and “Crossroads” (2002).
However, Spears had to go through a tough time after her divorce from her second husband Kevin Federline in 2007, with whom she has two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James. The two got married in 2004 but filed for separation in 2006. She was previously married to her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in 2004 but they separated the same year.
The actor suffered from mental stress and shaved his head in a show in 2007, due to which a guardianship was imposed on him in 2008. The guardianship was finally lifted in 2021 after a legal battle.
Spears, who rose to fame at a young age, wrote about the incident in her book, an excerpt of which has been released. People magazine.
“I was stared at a lot as a child. From the time I was a teenager, people would look at me from top to bottom, tell me what they thought of my body. Shaving my head and acting were my ways of protesting all of that,” she recalled.
The singer also explained how the conservatorship made her lose control of her life.
“The conservatorship robbed me of my femininity, turning me into a child,” she wrote in her memoir. “I became more of an entity on stage than a person. I had always felt music in my bones and blood; they robbed me of that, too.”
