Britney Spears Biopic From Depraved Director Jon M. Chu Lands At Common

For music biopic followers, at the moment’s turning into an actual doozy. Earlier, we learnt that Morgan Neville’s bricks-and-beats LEGO Pharrell Williams film Piece By Piece is set to shut this 12 months’s London Movie Competition in October. And now we’re getting phrase by way of THR that Depraved director Jon M. Chu is about to show his consideration from one misunderstood girlboss with a banging set of pipes to a different as he is signed on to direct a brand new Britney Spears biopic at Common.

The studio behemoth fought off stiff competitors to land the rights to the ‘I am A Slave 4 U’ singer’s 2023 memoir The Girl In Me, through which the American music icon provides a uncooked and unfiltered account of her life, profession, psychological well being struggles, and the perils of kid stardom. And while we do not know who’ll be taking part in Britney within the film simply but, we do know that Chu’s Depraved producer Marc Platt is aboard to supervise this venture — a artistic alternative Spears herself shared her pleasure about in a put up shared on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter. Test it out beneath:

This new Britney biopic joins a current years resurgence in films based mostly on music icons which has included the likes of Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Again To Black, Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced’s Bob Marley: One Love, Elton John flight of fantasy Rocketman, and the upcoming Julia Garner starring Madonna pic Who’s That Lady. And that is all not together with Common’s different within the works music-based films, specifically their Snoop Dogg biopic (certainly to be titled The Doggfather) and Ryan Coogler-produced Prince jukebox musical. Solely time will inform nevertheless whether or not this new Spears film may have us shouting “Gimme Extra!” or whether or not the entire endeavour will wind up turning just a little bit Poisonous. It does seem to be destiny although that the Loopy Wealthy Asians director is helming this one, although. In spite of everything, Britney did as soon as famously sing “Chu need a piece of me?” These had been the lyrics, proper? Proper?