‘Depraved’ director says there’s “a protracted highway forward” for Britney Spears’ biopic

Depraved director Jon M. Chu has steered that it is perhaps a protracted wait till we get Britney Spears‘ anticipated biopic – see what he needed to say under.

It was reported in early August final 12 months that Spears was within the means of growing her biopic with Depraved director Jon M. Chu, based mostly on her latest memoir The Girl In Me. “Excited to share with my followers that I’ve been engaged on a secret undertaking with #MarcPlatt,” she wrote on social media on the time. “He’s at all times made my favorite films… keep tuned.”

In November, Chu confirmed that that the movie was in its “preliminary conception” stage, and that they’d but to rent a author to pen the script. Now, Chu has shared one other substantial replace, telling Billboard on the 2025 Golden Globes: “I’m an enormous fan of Britney. I’ve been a fan since I used to be younger and she or he was younger and she or he was considered one of 12 acts on the Shrine Auditorium. So I wish to do her justice and inform her story proper. However we’ll see. We’re growing it now and it’s a protracted highway forward.”

Chatting with Leisure Tonight on the identical subject, Chu confirmed Spears’ involvement within the movie: “She’s going to be very concerned. I haven’t actually began something absolutely but, however she will probably be very concerned on this. I’ve concepts and issues, an strategy, but it surely’s very early.”

Regardless of the undertaking having already been introduced, Spears herself induced confusion in September when she appeared to indicate that the “secret undertaking” she was engaged on with Chu was actually not a biopic of her life, however a “fictional musical”.

“You’ll need to ask Britney what she meant by all of that,” Chu stated when requested about that put up. “However she wrote my title in considered one of her Instagrams or tweets. That’s an honour. I really like that. I feel she likes to tease the viewers in several methods. So I’ll let or not it’s a thriller on her half, however I’m excited to work along with her.”

The Girl In Me was an enormous success upon launch and has bought over 2.5million copies within the US alone, and shifted 1,000,000 copies worldwide in its first week in October in 2023. In the meantime, the audiobook —  narrated by Hollywood star Michelle Williams, with an introduction by Spears — is the fastest-selling in writer Simon & Schuster’s historical past.

The guide contained quite a lot of notable revelations in its candid dialogue of her profession, relationships, 13-year conservatorship and private experiences. One of the important was that she had an abortion whereas courting Justin Timberlake between 1998 to 2002 as a result of he thought they “weren’t able to have a child in our lives” and had been “method too younger”.