Madonna could be showing on the small display quickly. The enduring singer might be on the heart of a Netflix restricted collection about her life and music, in keeping with a brand new Deadline report. Netflix didn’t affirm the venture to IndieWire.
Per Deadline, Madonna will govt produce alongside “Stranger Issues” EP Shawn Levy, whose 21 Laps banner has an unique TV total deal at Netflix. Madonna is repped by CAA, Maverick Administration, Untitled Leisure, and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks. Levy and 21 Laps are repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
As Deadline famous, the slated collection is just not affiliated with the long-gestating movie biopic in regards to the “Like a Virgin” icon; that movie was beforehand in improvement at Common with Emmy winner Julia Garner set to painting Madonna as of June 2022.
But, Deadline cited the rumor that regardless of the venture being separate from the characteristic, Garner may nonetheless be solid within the lead, particularly since Garner has appeared alongside Madonna on social media as of late, plus has a long-running relationship at Netflix after starring in “Ozark” and “Inventing Anna.” She additionally might be govt producing and starring in a Netflix collection about FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, with Garner portraying his girlfriend and enterprise affiliate Caroline Ellison.
Garner teased to Leisure Tonight in 2023 that, regardless of the Madonna movie being shelved by Common, it was not the top of her involvement in an iteration of a Madonna biopic. “I don’t need to inform an excessive amount of,” Garner stated to Leisure Tonight. “I’m going to maintain issues … fingers crossed.”
Per a prior THR report, Garner endured “as much as 11-hour-a-day choreography periods” with Madonna’s private choreographer, adopted by choreography periods with the singer herself to land the position. The untitled movie was going to culminate with Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition tour and would require a number of dancing and singing sequences. Madonna labored with Diablo Cody and playwright Erin Cressida Wilson on the script.
Madonna admitted that co-writing the script was like “hacking off my limbs” earlier than the movie was de facto canceled. “I’ve had a unprecedented life, I need to make a unprecedented movie,” Madonna stated in July 2022. “It was additionally a preemptive strike as a result of lots of people have been making an attempt to make films about me. Largely misogynistic males. So I put my foot within the door and stated, ‘Nobody’s going to inform my story, however me.’”