Britney Spears biopic update: director teases “initial conception”

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Britney Spears biopic has teased that they now have an “initial conception” of the story the film will tell.It was announced by Universal Pictures in August that Spears’ best-selling 2023 memoir The Woman In Me would serve as the basis for a new biographical film about the popstar, and Jon M.

Chu (In The Heights, Crazy Rich Asians) had signed on as director.Now, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chu has revealed that although there is yet to be a writer attached to the project, they have now reached an agreement about the movie’s overall shape.“In this initial conception, I think it’s a lot about how we treat people, young people, stars that we think we own, women, mothers,” he said.Chu, who is also preparing to release his film Wicked on November 22, went on to express his excitement at being involved in the project. “I cannot talk much about the Britney story other than I have been a Britney fan for many years,” he explained. “I saw her when she was one of 12 acts at the Shrine Auditorium.

I’ve gone to many of her shows, and she’s always been someone I’ve looked up to. She represents a generation of people growing up in the 2000s and late ‘90s, and she has a story that deserves to be told properly.

There’s a lot about us in it.”Despite the project having 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 in fact not a biopic of her life, but a “fictional musical”.“You’ll have to ask Britney what she meant by all of that,” Chu said when asked about that post. “But she wrote my name in one of her Instagrams or tweets.