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Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen
Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct
The 42-year-old singer’s tell-all, which detailed her small-town Louisiana upbringing, her mega-stardom as a teenager, her mental breakdown and hounding by paparazzi, and the 13-year legal conservatorship that became a lightning rod for speculation and sympathy, topped bestseller charts last fall. Spears is not the only pop star with big-screen treatment in development – a year and a half after the project was indefinitely halted, Madonna’s long-gestating biopic, also from Universal Pictures, is reportedly back on. Chu, 44, previously directed 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, which became the first major Hollywood studio movie to feature a majority-Asian cast in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.
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