{"id":24908,"date":"2024-08-05T16:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/britney-spears-la-princesse-de-la-pop-bientot-sur-grand-ecran\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:51:31","slug":"britney-spears-the-princess-of-pop-soon-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/britney-spears-the-princess-of-pop-soon-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears, the princess of pop, soon on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Star child, pop princess, subject of a conservatorship for over a decade\u2026 Britney Spears has been under constant media scrutiny since the beginning of her career. Revealed to the public at just 11 years old, the singer shares the story of her life in the autobiographical book \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d Published in October 2023 and sold in millions of copies, the story will soon be adapted to film by Universal Studios.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is undoubtedly the most well-known pop singer in the world. At 42, <strong>Britney Spears<\/strong> has experienced the best and worst of the star system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While in January 2024, she claimed, &#8220;<em>I will never return to the music industry!<\/em>&#8221; in a caption of an Instagram post, the American seems determined to make her voice heard once again. The publication of her autobiography <strong>&#8220;The Woman in Me&#8221;<\/strong> in 2023 and the revelations it contained caused a media frenzy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These reactions are not surprising. Since her career exploded in the 1990s, the performer of &#8220;<em>&#8230;Baby One More Time<\/em>&#8221; has continuously been the target of detractors and journalists. <strong>Joanna Arcieri<\/strong>, a doctoral candidate at the <strong>Columbia Journalism School<\/strong>, chose to write her thesis on the media coverage of Britney Spears and the <strong>#FreeBritney<\/strong> movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American journalist Aimee Levitt relied on this work to trace the different eras of the star&#8217;s life, putting them in parallel with the various media contexts surrounding them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What stands out most is how the media institutions collectively mistreated her, even as the star showed all the symptoms of declining mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>The Revenge of a Blonde<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CXwE7OrA0M?si=-uFpjU4Nhw2LuKf9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After several years of legal battles to end the conservatorship orchestrated by her father <strong>Jamie Spears<\/strong>, Britney Spears seems eager to regain control over the narrative of her life. This will be done through the publication of her memoirs titled \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Described as &#8220;<em>a story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope<\/em>,&#8221; the book follows the singer&#8217;s meteoric rise but also her descent into more difficult times over its 300 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several documentaries had already focused on her journey, such as \u201c<strong>Britney vs Spears<\/strong>\u201d on Netflix, but for the first time, the singer tells her story in her own words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A decision that seems to have been financially successful as well, as the American reportedly earned <strong>15 million dollars<\/strong> for signing her contract with the publishing house <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>From Bookstores to Cinema<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Britney Spears&#8217; story seems destined to gain even more momentum. On <strong>Thursday, August 1<\/strong>, it was revealed that a film adaptation project was already in the works, less than a year after the book&#8217;s publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After intense bidding, <strong>Universal Pictures<\/strong> obtained the adaptation rights. The production company is no stranger to biopics and is notably behind \u201c<strong>8 Mile<\/strong>\u201d (2002), a film about the rapper <strong>Eminem<\/strong> that generated over 250 million dollars worldwide. The studio is also preparing a feature film on <strong>Snoop Dogg<\/strong> and the singer <strong>Prince<\/strong>, who passed away in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Excited to share with my fans that I&#8217;ve been working on a secret project with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarcPlatt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarcPlatt<\/a>. He\u2019s always made my favorite movies \u2026 stay tuned \ud83c\udf39\ud83c\udfa5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Britney Spears \ud83c\udf39\ud83d\ude80 (@britneyspears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/britneyspears\/status\/1819058008128708721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the name of the actress who will play Britney Spears has not yet been revealed, the project has already found its director. <strong>Jon M. Chu<\/strong>, who notably directed the musical \u201c<strong>Wicked<\/strong>,\u201d will helm the biopic. He will work alongside producer <strong>Marc Platt<\/strong>, a highly renowned figure in the film industry who has helped launch famous filmmakers such as <strong>Damien Chazelle<\/strong>, the Franco-American director of \u201c<strong>La La Land<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the film does not yet have a release date, it is likely to achieve the same success as the book it is based on. The public rushed to bookstores upon the publication of the singer&#8217;s memoirs, resulting in the sale of <strong>2.4 million physical copies<\/strong> in less than a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From her iconic performance at the <strong>VMAs<\/strong> in 2001 to her relationship with singer Justin Timberlake and her 13 years under conservatorship, the adaptation of \u201cThe Woman in Me\u201d promises to be filled with emotions and significant moments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/the-cote-dazurs-finest-hotels-for-an-indian-summer\/\">The Finest Hotels of the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur for an Indian Summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured Photo: \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star child, pop princess, subject of a conservatorship for over a decade\u2026 Britney Spears has been under constant media scrutiny since the beginning of her career. 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