I’m not mad about it but I do wish we were getting a new album instead.

Edited July 19, 20241 yr by No Sleeep

Wow that's amazing.

The film could be made into a series now!!

 

Madonna not wanting to downsize!

The momentum that Madonna built with the Celebration tour was so huge... Someone should tell her that a movie/series would just be met with criticism and knock her back down again.

 

An autobiography and the album reissues would be a much better way of continuing the celebration of her career.

 

 

Deadline has announced Madonna has teamed up with Shawn Levy and Netflix for a limited series on her life... with Julia Garner rumoured to play her!

Madonna Teams With Shawn Levy For Limited Series About Her Life In Works At Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: Global music superstar Madonna has partnered with global streamer Netflix to tell her story. A limited series about her life and music is in early development at Netflix, with Madonna and Shawn Levy, whose 21 Laps has an exclusive TV overall deal at the platform, executive producing, Deadline has learned. A rep for Netflix declined comment.

The duo, who had been discussing the project for awhile, are starting from scratch: the biographical limited series is not related to the Madonna feature biopic which was previously in development at Universal with three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner as the choice to play the Queen of Pop.

It is early days of development on the TV series, so it is unclear yet which period in Madonna’s decades-spanning career it will focus on. Still, Garner has remained engaged — she famously appeared alongside Madonna on stage at the singer’s Celebration Tour in December 2023 — and I hear the Ozark star would most likely play Madonna, subject of availability as she doesn’t have a deal. (Garner would also feel right at home at Netflix where she just signed on her for her third series, an FTX limited series, following her turns on Inventing Anna and Ozark.)

It is also too early to tell whether Madonna would be involved in the writing; she co-wrote the proposed feature.

Teaming with Netflix and one of the streamer’s most prolific TV producers, Levy, who is behind such Netflix shows as mega hit Stranger Things and limited series The Perfect Couple and All the Light We Cannot See, represents a major step in bringing Madonna’s story to the screen, something she has been passionate about for years.

“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 said at the time of the Universal feature announcement in 2020.

Madonna had remained committed to the idea and last November hinted on Instagram that she may be pivoting from a feature biopic to a TV series about her life.

^ i think this is a great idea

Madonna's biopic movie was killed after a "falling out" with Universal Pictures over budget concerns, she says.

“I was supposed to make a movie about my life. I worked on my script for two years and spent two years at Universal Studios with the line producers doing budgeting and casting. We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget because I needed — I’ve had an extraordinary life. I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget. You know what I mean? [I tried to find] a way to make it for less money in Serbia. Maybe they just didn’t believe in me. One of their first reactions was, ‘We don’t believe you’d stay in Serbia more than four days.’ And I said, ‘Did you read the script?’ My whole life has been survival. I’m not going there for a holiday. But anyway, I was in limbo when that fell apart, and then Netflix reached out to make a series. That was a whole other long process, because I couldn’t use the script I had with Universal unless I bought it from them for an extortionist’s price, even though I wrote it. Don’t ask.” (via Interview)

Imagine writing a script for two years and not being able to use it !!