Brad Pitt criticised over reported plans to adapt Britney Spears’ memoir
Brad Pitt has been criticised for reported plans to adapt Britney Spears‘ new memoir for the massive display screen.
Spears launched her ebook, The Lady In Me, final month, which candidly mentioned her profession, relationships, 13-year conservatorship and private experiences. It additionally accommodates various noteworthy revelations about her private life, together with that she had an abortion whereas relationship Justin Timberlake. The ebook bought over a million copies in its first week on the cabinets.
In line with studies by PageSix, Pitt is among the many high-profile celebrities bidding for an opportunity to adapt Spears’s story into a movie. Reece Witherspoon was additionally reportedly within the mission, in accordance with sources. Actor Margot Robbie has since denied she was interested in the project.
Nonetheless, Pitt’s obvious bid to adapt the ebook together with his firm, Plan B Leisure, has come underneath fireplace on-line, with some suggesting it will be hypocritical. Certainly, the corporate was behind quite a few movies in 2022 with themes regarding the abuse of ladies, together with Girls Speaking, She Mentioned and Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde.
In response to the information, one fan tweeted: “Brad Pitt… biopics about mistreated ladies aren’t a automobile so that you can repent or mend your public picture go discover one thing else.”
One other added: “brad pitt all the time reside from the scene of ladies’s enterprise. simply insidious”, whereas a 3rd stated he needs to be the “final particular person” to be concerned with an adaptation.
Brad Pitt… biopics about mistreated ladies aren’t a automobile so that you can repent or mend your public picture go discover one thing else https://t.co/AAsJDYR46d pic.twitter.com/Qv9E4AhrDS
— Sydney🚀 (@CountVolpe) November 15, 2023
brad pitt all the time reside from the scene of ladies’s enterprise. simply insidious https://t.co/wmBNq0Pdqq
— not j*ss (@itsnotjess123) November 15, 2023
Brad Pitt needs to be the final particular person to ever get their fingers on this https://t.co/LRwBBOFm1D
— Dan ➃ (@natsquake) November 15, 2023
Im sorry. I do NOT need to see a Britney Spears film produced by Brad Pitt. What real motive would he should WANT to supply it? What worth would he, a person, convey? https://t.co/EdrddoanBo
— ayo, jaynee… (@ayojaynee) November 16, 2023
Can’t factor of anybody worse than brad pitt to supply an adaptation of Britney Spears’ life https://t.co/7gU48EQ2q4
— andrea (@smallboynom0ney) November 16, 2023
Regardless of this, the deliberate adaption of Spears’s ebook is “solely starting to take form,” an insider advised PageSix.
Final week, US media firm The Ankler reported that Spears was “overwhelmed by the response” to her ebook’s success and the “media frenzy surrounding it”, inflicting her workforce to “maintain off on making any main selections about the place the rights find yourself till she has time to catch her breath”.
She had apparently rescheduled a gathering with an unnamed producer “on the final minute” as she “didn’t really feel as much as it”, the outlet stated.
In the meantime, Spears lately sang the praises of Taylor Swift, who she stated she thought was an “iconic pop lady”.