You may or may not have dreamed of it: Britney Spears will be entitled to his official biopic. According to VarietyUniversal Pictures has acquired the rights to the singer’s best-selling memoir, The woman in mereleased in October 2023. Produced by Marc Platt (La La Land, Babylon, The little Mermaid), the film already has its director, Jon M. Chu, who directed the musicals D‘where we come fromand lately Wicked (with Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey). The good news is that this project has been validated by the main interested party, she will even personally get involved. All that remains is to know who will lend her features to the singer… For the moment, no name has been mentioned. We also do not know when this film will be released in theaters.
Britney Spears, a successful autobiography
Huge success in bookstores, The woman in me has passed more than 2.5 million copiess only in the United States, recalls Variety. The audiobook is read in the original version by actress Michelle Williams. In this autobiographyBritney Spears talks about her childhood, her family, her years in the Mickey Mouse Club, the fame that fell upon her when she was a teenager, her loves, her failures, her guardianship.
And if we thought we knew it by heart, we had ultimately learned a lot more than we imagined. “Reliving it all has been exciting, heartbreaking and emotional, to say the least,” she had confided to People at the time of the book’s release.
A life already adapted for the screen
And you probably forgot it, but the life of the interpreter of Baby One More Time has already been adapted… on the small screen. In February 2017, Lifetime, the favorite channel of American “housewives”, broadcast the TV movie Britney Ever After (or Broken Destiny: Britney Spears, the Hell of Fame in its French version). Britney was played by Australian actress Natasha Bassett, Justin Timberlake, the first great love of her life, was played by Nathan Keyes, and Kevin Federline, the father of her two sons, was played by Clayton Chitty. Not “validated” by Britney Spears, he had been destroyed by the singer’s fans. Rightly so…
