Sydney Sweeney and Sabrina Carpenter are among the many stars followers wish to see play Britney Spears in a brand new biopic. (Getty)
Britney Spears has teased an official biopic primarily based on her 2023 memoir The Girl In Me, and followers are internet hosting their very own digital casting calls to seek out the precise star to play her.
Writing on X/Twitter yesterday (1 August), “Piece Of Me” singer Britney revealed that she had been engaged on a “secret mission” with movie producer Marc Platt.
“Excited to share with my followers that I’ve been engaged on a secret mission with #MarcPlatt. He’s all the time made my favorite films,” she wrote, telling her followers to “keep tuned”.
Nearly instantly after Britney shared the coy put up, publications together with Selection, The Guardian and Empire started reporting that Common Footage had received the rights to supply a Britney biopic.
The movie primarily based on the Grammy-winning singer’s life will reportedly be helmed by Depraved director Jon M. Chu and produced by Platt.
The Girl In Me detailed Spears’ profession beginnings, from her childhood and time on US selection TV present The Mickey Mouse Membership, by way of to her rise to famous person standing.
Spears’ ebook additionally shared her aspect of a few of her greatest profession controversies, together with the tip of her relationship with fellow singer Justin Timberlake, her extremely publicised psychological well being breakdown in 2007, and her fractured relationship together with her household following the implementation of her 2008 conservatorship.
She has been free from the conservatorship, put in place by her father Jamie Spears, since 2021.
As followers eagerly anticipate additional particulars concerning the biopic, they’ve started theorising about which appearing legends and fellow music stars might play Spears within the movie.
The listing of prompt names is fairly expansive, however there are a number of names getting thrown about greater than others.
One of many main names is Stranger Issues actress Millie Bobby Brown, who has beforehand expressed an curiosity in taking part in the “Poisonous” hitmaker.
On the time, Spears shot the suggestion down, writing on Instagram: “I hear about folks eager to do films about my life… dude I’m not lifeless!!!”
Sydney Sweeney is one other identify being prompt by various followers, owing to her likeness to Spears, but in addition due to her ever-growing appearing profile in recent times.
Ever since her breakout function as Cassie Howard in HBO’s smutty teen drama Euphoria in 2019, Sweeney has been just about unavoidable on our screens, starring in huge mission together with The White Lotus, Anybody However You, and Immaculate.
Different appearing names that may be within the working if followers had their approach embody Chicago star Olivia Holt, Saltburn’s Alison Oliver, Disney star Ruby Rose Turner, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller actress Madelyn Cline, and The Nice‘s Elle Fanning.
A good few Britney lovers have prompt that the function ought to go to a skilled singer and dancer who can captivate the essence of efficiency that Spears’ is finest identified for.
In that vein, fan concepts embody “Espresso” hitmaker Sabrina Carpenter, “Grasping” singer Tate McRae, and Britney tremendous fan Addison Rae.
Others, although, are eager for the function to go to a performer who isn’t well-known but in any respect.
“Genuinely assume the Britney biopic function ought to go to a whole unknown – deliver again open auditions,” one fan wrote on social media. “Carry again dance courses! There’s an undiscovered triple menace in Mississippi proper now who was born to re-record ‘Oops! I Did It Once more’.”
“They should maintain a nationwide casting name, that’s how critical it’s,” a second added.
There are presently no additional particulars on the event of Britney Spears’ biopic.
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