Britney Spears is getting the biopic treatment: The pop star has announced that her recent memoir, The Woman in Me, will be adapted into a feature film by Universal Pictures, with director Jon M. Chu (Wicked) and producer Marc Platt (La La Land) attached to develop. Spears shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) to announce the film, writing, “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with Marc Platt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned.”
Back in November 2021, Spears’ conservatorship was terminated after a lengthy, highly publicized trial. Since then, she shared the best-selling The Woman in Me chronicling her life and the conservatorship (released alongside an audiobook version read by actor Michelle Williams) and put out two songs: the Elton John collaboration “Hold Me Closer,” which re-worked his hit “Tiny Dancer,” and “Mind Your Business” with Will.i.am. Spears’ last album was 2016’s Glory.
Revisit Pitchfork’s “A Timeline of the Connections Between Britney Spears’ Music and Her Conservatorship Fight.”