Britney Spears‘ memoir The Lady In Me is ready to be tailored into a movie.
Common Photos has landed the rights to the guide in a aggressive public sale lower than a yr after it hit cabinets, with Depraved director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt hooked up to the venture (as per Selection).
Spears later confirmed the information on her social media. “Excited to share with my followers that I’ve been engaged on a secret venture with #MarcPlatt,” she wrote. “He’s all the time made my favourite films … keep tuned.”
The Lady In Me was an enormous success upon launch and has bought over 2.5million copies within the US alone, shifting one million copies worldwide in its first week. In the meantime, the audiobook — narrated by Hollywood star Michelle Williams, with an introduction by Spears — is the fastest-selling in writer Simon & Schuster’s historical past.
The guide contained a lot of notable revelations in its candid dialogue of her profession, relationships, 13-year conservatorship and private experiences. Probably the most important was that she had an abortion whereas courting Justin Timberlake between 1998 to 2002 as a result of he thought they “weren’t able to have a child in our lives” and have been “method too younger”.
Excited to share with my followers that I have been engaged on a secret venture with #MarcPlatt. He’s all the time made my favourite films … keep tuned 🌹🎥
— Britney Spears 🌹🚀 (@britneyspears) August 1, 2024
Elsewhere within the guide, Spears opened up about how she may “barely converse for months” following her break-up with Timberlake.
She added that the media noticed her as a “harlot who’d damaged the guts of America’s golden boy” when in actuality she was “comatose in Louisiana” attempting to fix her damaged coronary heart whereas Timberlake was “fortunately working round Hollywood”.
Spears beforehand teased that a second quantity of the memoir might be on the horizon.
In different information, Spears has launched a collaboration with skateboard model Welcome.
Followers should buy customized decks and merch that includes iconic photos from Spears’ profession, together with the quilt of her debut album ‘Child One Extra Time’, and pictures from her famed 2001 MTV VMAs efficiency.
There are additionally hoodies, t-shirts, hats and water bottles inscribed with lyrics from her largest hits, like “I Nonetheless Consider“, and “Not That Harmless“.
Elsewhere, Ozzy Osbourne and his household issued an apology to Spears this week, after having lately made disparaging feedback about her dancing in movies.
Halsey has additionally responded to Spears’ claims she felt “harassed, violated and bullied” by her new video Gia Coppola-directed video ‘Fortunate’, which interpolates the traditional 2000 Spears hit along with her blessing.
