After stops and begins on a biopic about her life and profession, Madonna is popping to the restricted sequence format to inform her story.
The music icon is teaming with producer and director Shawn Levy on a sequence venture at Netflix. The restricted sequence within the early levels of improvement on the streamer, the place Levy’s 21 Laps firm has an total deal.
Netflix declined remark.
The Netflix venture is just not associated to earlier efforts to mount a characteristic movie about Madonna. Julia Garner was thought-about the frontrunner to play Madonna within the movie, which was arrange at Common Footage however was scuttled in early 2023. Madonna hinted final yr, through a social media submit, that she was once more at work on the movie.
For the reason that improvement course of is in its early days, it’s not clear whether or not the potential Netflix sequence would span Madonna’s total life and profession or a particular interval inside it. No author is hooked up; Madonna wrote drafts of the characteristic script about her with Diablo Cody and Cressida Wilson.
Levy’s portfolio at Netflix contains Stranger Issues, The Good Couple, All of the Mild We Can’t See and The Adam Venture, amongst different titles. He directed and produced final yr’s field workplace hit Deadpool & Wolverine.
Madonna is repped by CAA, Maverick Administration, Untitled Leisure and Grubman Shire. Levy and 21 Laps are repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro.
Deadline first reported the information.