Many Britney Spears fans don’t understand why her biopic is going ahead. The feature film is based on her memoirs, ‘The Woman I Am’, an informatively quite incomplete book, which omits several important years of her life and leaves many episodes in the pipeline. However, it is a light, agile and, after all, very pop work, which has sold a whopping 6 million copies.
Although Spears is retired from music and insists on Instagram that she continues to “heal” the wounds caused by family trauma and the pressure to which the music industry subjected her, production of the film continues.
Now a renowned screenwriter has joined the project and will adapt the book into a film script. This is Liz Meriwether, well known for being the creator of the successful series ‘New Girl’, starring Zooey Deschanel. Curiously, there is a link between her and Britney, since Meriwether was the co-creator of ‘Dying for Sex’, the miniseries starring Michelle Williams, the same actress who voices the audiobook of ‘The Woman I Am’.
Meriwether became known in 2011 thanks to the romantic comedy ‘No Strings Attached’ and is also recognized for the Hulu series ‘The Dropout’. Now it is very curious to know what approach the script will take to transfer Spears’ memories to the big screen. The film was announced in 2024 and will be directed by John M. Chu (‘Wicked’), with production by Marc Platt.
