In early August of last year, it was reported that Spears was in the process of developing her biopic with director Jon M. Chu.
The director of Wicked, Jon M. Chuhas suggested that there could be a long wait until the long-awaited biopic of Britney Spears.
In early August last year, it was reported that Spears was in the process of developing her biopic with director Jon M. Chu, based on her recent memoir. The Woman In Me. “I’m excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with #MarcPlatt,” she wrote on social media at the time. “He’s always made my favorite movies…stay tuned.”
In November, Chu confirmed that the film was in its “initial conception” stage. and that they still had to hire a writer to write the script. Now, Chu has shared another substantial update, telling Billboard at the 2025 Golden Globes: “I’m a huge Britney fan. I’ve been a fan since I was young and she was young and was one of the 12 acts at the Shrine Auditorium. So I want to do him justice and tell his story well. But we’ll see. We are developing it now and it is a long road ahead“.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the same topic, Chu confirmed Spears’ participation in the film: “She’s going to be very involved. I haven’t started anything completely yet, but she will be very involved in this. “I have ideas and things, an approach, but it’s too early.”
Even though the project had already been announced, Spears herself caused confusion in September when she seemed to imply that the “secret project” she was working on with Chu was not actually a biopic of her life, but rather a “ fictitious musical.
“You’ll have to ask Britney what she meant by all that,” Chu said when asked about that post. “But he wrote my name in one of his Instagram or tweets. It’s an honor. I love that. I think he likes to provoke the audience in different ways. So I’ll leave it to a mystery on her part, but I’m excited to work with her.”
The Woman In Me, the successful biographical book about Britney Spears
The Woman In Me was a huge success upon release and has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone, and one million copies worldwide in its first week of October 2023. Meanwhile, the audiobook , narrated by the Hollywood star Michelle Williamswith an introduction by Spears, is the best-selling book in the history of publisher Simon & Schuster.
The book contains a number of remarkable revelations in its candid analysis of her career, her relationships, her 13 years of conservatorship, and her personal experiences. One of the most significant was that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake between 1998 and 2002 because he thought that “we were not ready to have a baby in our lives” and that we were “too young.”
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