Jon M. Chu is ready to unleash Wicked: For Good on the world, but waiting in the wings is the Britney Spears biopic that he’s signed on to direct. While there are no details about the movie yet — including who will play Britney — Chu says he wants to do the singer justice.
Esquire reports that reading Britney’s 2023 book, The Woman in Me, was “profound” for Chu, and he’s “desperate to tell her story.”
“She did what she had to do to survive,” Chu tells Esquire. “She deserves a story that honors that. Now that she has her freedom, what does freedom actually cost? And what does that look like? What can we do most to encourage her to be free and not try to turn her into whatever we want her to be?”
While there have been plenty of rumors as to who might play Britney — with names like Millie Bobbie Brown, Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande being thrown around — Chu denied in March that any of that was true, writing on X, “Sounds exciting but have not had one conversation about casting this movie yet. We are way too early in development. Sorry.”
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