Britney Spears is working on her own biopic, Variety has confirmed. Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Spears’ memoir The Woman I Am and will produce a film based on the text with the singer’s collaboration, “following a competitive auction.”
The big screen adaptation of ‘The Woman I Am’ will be directed by Jon M. Chu, who is releasing ‘Wicked’ this year, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Marc Platt will produce the film.
Universal has already produced several biopics, including some as successful as NWA’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Eminem’s ‘8 Mile’.
Spears had announced on X that she was working on a “secret project” with producer Marc Platt, who is behind her “favorite movies.”
In ‘The Woman I Am’, Spears recounts her family experiences, her experiences in the music industry and her life under her father’s tutelage, completed in 2021. The book is estimated to have sold 3 million copies worldwide.
Spears has been in the news for posting and then deleting a message condemning Halsey’s music video for “Lucky” — a song that uses the chorus from Spears’ 2000 hit “Lucky” — for depicting her in a “shallow” way. Spears immediately backtracked, saying she didn’t write the message, and that she “loves” Halsey.
