Madonna biopic starring Julia Garner SCRAPPED as singer prepares for world tour trends now
The Madonna biopic starring Julia Garner has been shelved indefinitely as the Queen Of Pop prepares to go on a world tour.
Madonna, 64, was planning to direct the motion picture herself for Universal Pictures, but Variety reports the film is not in development any longer.
News that the biopic is off comes a week after the 'Queen Of Pop' announced a massive world tour, casting doubt on the future of the movie.
Off: The upcoming Madonna (left) biopic starring Julia Garner (right) has been indefinitely shelved as the Queen Of Pop prepares to go on a world tour
Madonna spent years percolating the movie, which was first announced in 2020 and has blown through multiple screenwriters.
Diablo Cody, who won an Academy Award for scripting Juno, and Erin Cressida Wilson, who wrote the film Secretary, both took passes at Madonna's screenplay.
'I have a very long script that is really hard for me to make shorter,' Madonna said last summer. 'I've been whittling away at it, but it’s like hacking off my limbs.'
Asked why she decided to embark on the undertaking, she told Variety: 'I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an extraordinary film.'
The Material Girl added: 'It was also a preemptive strike because a lot of people were trying to make movies about me. Mostly misogynistic men. So I put my foot in the door and said: "No one’s going to tell my story, but me."'
News broke in June that Julia Garner, who recently played the fake German heiress Anna Delvey on the Netflix miniseries
