The Madonna biopic starring Julia Garner has been postponed indefinitely as the pop queen prepares to embark on a world tour.
Madonna, 64, had been planning to direct the motion picture herself for Universal Pictures, but Variety reports that the film is no longer in development.
News of the biopic’s cancellation comes a week after the ‘Queen of Pop’ announced a massive world tour, casting doubt on the future of the movie.
CLOSED: The upcoming Madonna (left) biopic starring Julia Garner (right) has been postponed indefinitely as the pop queen prepares to embark on a world tour
Sources say he still wants to make the film at some point in the future, but is currently focusing on his upcoming concert.
Madonna has spent years working on the movie, which was first announced in 2020 and has bounced through multiple screenwriters.
Diablo Cody, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Juno, and Erin Cressida Wilson, who wrote the film Secretary, both passed on Madonna’s screenplay.
Madonna said last summer, ‘I have a very long script that is really hard for me to shorten. ‘I’m getting away with it, but it’s like cutting off my limbs.’
Gratitude: News of the biopic’s closure comes a week after the ‘Queen of Pop’ announced a massive world tour; He took to Instagram last week to thank fans for buying tickets
Asked why he decided to take the initiative, he told Variety: ‘I have an amazing life, I must make an amazing film.’
The material girl added: ‘It was a premeditated strike because so many people were trying to make movies about me. Most are misogynistic men. So I stepped in the door and said: “No one will tell my story but me.”
News broke in June that Julia Garner, who recently played fake German heiress Anna Delvey in the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, had been offered the lead.
Julia reportedly beat out a number of buzzed names, including Oscar nominee Florence Pugh, Mayor of Kingstown actress Emma Laird and Euphoria bombshell Alexa Demi, as well as singers such as Bebe Rexha and Sky Ferrera.
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Top contestants reportedly undergo a ‘Madonna bootcamp’ with dance training that can last up to 11 hours a day.
A source told The Hollywood Reporter that the process, which involved lessons with both Madonna’s choreographer and the pop diva, was ‘brutal’.
Shortlisted actresses also performed readings and singing auditions for Madonna, as one insider put it: ‘You have to be able to do everything.’
It emerged in early June that Julia had been offered the role, and reports swirled that the working title for the project was Little Sparrow.
On the Go: It emerged in early June that Julia had been offered the role, and reports swirled that the working title for the project was Little Sparrow; He is pictured in July
However, the movie fell under a cloud of uncertainty last week when Madonna revealed they were touring the world together.
Entitled Celebration, the concert dates will run from June to December and whisk the superstar to 35 cities across North America and Europe.
Demand for tickets quickly became a frenzy, forcing Madonna to add dates for her terrified fans.
Julia reportedly beat out a number of buzz names, including Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (left), and blonde pop act babe Rexha (right).
Sporting a surprisingly smooth complexion, she posted an emotional Instagram video on Sunday thanking her public for snapping up tickets.
‘I don’t take any of this for granted,’ she said. ‘I feel like the luckiest girl in the world and I’m grateful for all your support.’
A few years ago Universal picked up a script for a Madonna biopic called Blonde Ambition from a writer named Elise Hollander.
Hit the Road: However, the movie fell under a cloud of uncertainty last week when Madonna, pictured in 2018, revealed they were touring the world together.
Madonna, however, took furious exception to the project, issuing a series of scathing condemnations of it on social media.
‘Only I can tell my story,’ he said angrily. Anyone else who tries is a charlatan and seeks instant gratification without working.’
Madonna has previously directed two widely derided feature films, the biopic W/E about Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and the dramedy Filth and Wisdom.
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