She’s stepping into the streaming groove.
After her big-screen biopic was scrapped in 2023, Madonna is taking her life story to Netflix in a restricted collection that’s in early growth, Deadline studies.
And Julia Garner, who was connected to star within the function movie, may nonetheless play the Materials Woman within the restricted collection, executive-produced by “Deadpool & Wolverine” director Shawn Levy and the Queen of Pop herself.
Madonna’s function biopic, which the singer co-wrote and was set to direct, was introduced in 2020.
“I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer – a human being, trying to make her way in this world,” she stated on the time of the Common Footage function. “The focus of this film will always be music. Music has kept me going, and art has kept me alive.”
Garner, 31, reportedly received the lead function after auditioning in a singing and dancing boot camp with the likes of Florence Pugh, “Euphoria” actress Alexa Demi and singer Bebe Rexha.
Nevertheless, the biopic was reportedly placed on maintain for Madonna, 66, to concentrate on her international Celebration Tour that launched later that yr.
Nonetheless, she saved hope alive for the venture by posting a photograph with Garner on Instagram, captioning it: “Bitch, we’re Madonna!” Much more, the Emmy-winning “Ozark” actress appeared onstage with the singer on the Brooklyn cease on her tour in December 2023.
In July 2024, biopic rumors reignited when Madonna shared a photograph of a typewriter as she made edits to a film script. In November, although, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer appeared to be rethinking the platform during which to inform her life story — after “struggling for days in LA, listening to producers and agents tell me why I couldn’t make my film,” she wrote on Instagram.
After being instructed to “downsize” and “think smaller,” Madonna continued, “I realized that everything in my life is going to be challenged. No easy rides for me.”
However she was “grateful” for the expertise making her “think outside the box” concerning the venture.
“I did not have a normal life,” she wrote. “I cannot make this in the normal way.”
She continued, “We cannot shrink and make ourselves smaller. If you want something badly enough in life — the whole universe will conspire to [help] you get it.”
