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Jobmen has set the record immediately on rumors casting for her Britney Spears Biopic.
“We haven’t had one talk about casting this film yet,” Chu, 45, confirmed on Sunday, March 23 through X.
The Wicked The Director responded to speculate that that Ariana Grande. Sabrina Carpenter and Millie Bobby Brown All run to play the singer “Gimme More”, 43. Wicked Fans were particularly excited about the hope that Grande could reunite with Chu possibly following their award -winning success with the musical, where she was falling like Glinda.
However, the filmmaker shot the rumors down completely by writing on X, “None of this is true. It sounds exciting but hasn’t had a single conversation about casting this film yet. We’re far too early in development. Sorry.”
Close It was reported in August 2024 that Chu was joining Universal photos on a film adaptation of Memoir Bestselling 2023 New York Times Spears of Spears The woman in me. The biography of a year -long battle detailed Spears to be released from conservation that ruled her life, both personal and professionally.
Several starred stars have expressed an interest in playing spears, including Brown, 21, revealing on Drew Barrymore Show In 2022 (long before the biography’s publication) that she felt passionate about the life story of the “toxic” singer.
“I want to play a real person and I think me, Britney. (It) would be Britney Spears,” Brown told the host Drew Barrymore. “I think his story echoes with me. Just grow up, watch her videos, watch interviews of her when she was younger – I see the scrambling for words and I don’t know her, but when I look up pictures of her, I feel we can tell her story in the right way and in line with it.”
Britney Spears.
Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Clear ChannelSpears seemed less than enthusiastic About Brown Film Plot, suggesting on Instagram at the time that it was premature to turn her life into a Hollywood film.
“Good news, good news !!! Still breathing … I hear about people want to make movies about my life … Dude I’m not dead !!!” Spears wrote through Instagram in November 2022.
American horror story star Emma Roberts Later was recommended by a former Spears Assistant, Felicia Culottaas ideal casting for the movie.
“I was like, ‘I love her assistant,’” joking Roberts, 34, later Cosmopolitan In August 2024. “That is, my true dream is to play Britney Spears. I’m sure, but I hope it might come true.
“That is, I remember I locked myself in my room and listened in the domain and said,“ I can’t leave this room until I remember every word, ”the Ahs The actress remembered.
The Director of the Biopic, Chu, has plenty of experience tackling music -themed projects, as he did Justin BieberConcert movies Never say ever and Believein 2011 and 2013, respectively. Later directed a film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s Broadway Breakthrough In the heights In 2021 and receive credit for 2024’s Wicked.
And Wicked sequence, under the title Wicked: for good. ERIVOwho returns as Glinda and Elphaba.
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In January 2025, Chu Superfans Spears warned that it would be a “long way” before the Biopic was completed because it wanted to ensure authenticity and sensitivity.
“I’m a big fan of Britney. I’ve been a fan since I was young and she was one of 12 acts in the shrine auditorium,” he said Entertainment tonight. “So I want to do his justice and tell her story properly.”
In the meantime it was reported in February Britney agreed to cover her father Jamie Spears‘Remaining legal bills derived from the conservatism, totaling over $ 2.12 million. The pair also agreed that Britney’s payments had resolved any eerie disputes with her father, relating to the termination of her conservation in 2021.
