Madonna cancels her own biopic, decides to do that tour instead
Julia Garner was set to play Madonna after going through a very demanding casting process
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In possibly the most Madonna move since Madonna announced that she would be directing her own biopic, Madonna has now apparently decided not to make her own biopic so she can focus on that big, career-spanning tour she announced earlier this month. According to Variety, the project “is no longer in development at Universal Pictures,” as “insiders” say that Madonna has decided that “her sole focus is the tour.” (Or it’s possible that Madonna just saw Weird and realized that a pretty faithful depiction of her life had already been done onscreen.)
But this isn’t a big deal, right? It’s not like the machinery was in motion and people were already committed to working on this thing, right? Well… no. Madonna announced the biopic herself back in 2020, teasing that she was developing the screenplay with Diablo Cody (!) and that former Sony boss and current Spider-Man series producer Amy Pascal was producing. That version fell apart at some point, with Erin Cressida Wilson of The Girl On The Train later doing another draft, but the biggest move in the project’s development came just last June, when Ozark and Investing Anna’s Julia Garner survived what was apparently a “grueling” casting process to land the plumb role as Madonna herself—A Hollywood Reporter story on the cancellation says that the casting process for prospective Madonnas included 11-hour days of choreography sessions, readings with Madonna, and singing auditions.
Now that was all for nothing, and Garner is going to have to find a different biopic to star in about a legendary musical artist who she bears a surprising resemblance to. Or Universal could just cut out all of the Madonna specifics and do an Aline-style biopic about a legally distinct star whose life just happens to be a lot like Madonna’s life.
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Having recently seen the Whitney Houston biopic, she’s probably making the right choice.
Oooof…yeah.
Having not seen the Whitney Houston biopic . . . same sentiment.
She realized she couldn’t top the Weird Al movie.
RIGHT?! Also she’s touring to run from the cops for what she did to Al… XD
She also can’t top Truth or Dare.
or Super Sloppy Madonna Dare
(Psst. They made the same joke in the article.)
Oh god I just skim the articles these days. I’m not even going back to check if you are right.
“Take the shot”
Maybe if she pushes those titties up higher it’ll cover her weird botox’ed face.
She looks like a drag version of herself.
Naa, she still sorta looks like a woman.
A very sad woman. Did someone tell her that her dog died just before they took the picture?
Well… what I do know, for sure. Like without a shadow of a doubt…. at one point she was, like 15 years, an absolute epitome of female sexuality. Like the female Elvis…. an absolute icon, maybe no bigger. Not only was she open about her sexuality, she flaunted it. She f’d black guys and women, never hid it, before it was cool. She literally, not overusing the word….LITERALLY, opened the door for LGTQB…. sexuality. As a teen she was on the wall, hell…she WAS the wall….She is trashy af, she won’t age correctly, but she is…and always will be an icon.
How did she even FIND the LGBTQ door so she could open it?!
Her massive, apparently wonderful vagina. I say Rodman opened it up… along with a bunch of guy/gals from her ACTUAL MOVIE.
I lost my cat once. It didn’t make me have a lot of expensive plastic surgery.
That’s only because you can’t afford it.
Yeah, I had to go to South America for the “budget deal”.
I have seen talented drag performers do better Madonnas then Madonna.
considering dolly parton lost a contest to a dolly drag queen, that’s really not on madonna.speaking of dolly, it’s interesting that dolly has also basically become a living mannequin but doesn’t get the hate that madonna does. (anymore)
Dolly isn’t running around, trying to stay edgy or relevant. She’s just out there, trying to be being good to other people and doing good for other people.
The shadow from the microphone makes it look like one of them has a huge hole in it.
Or its crosseyed.
hey fuck you
ok
Why would you ever allow someone to be in charge of making their own biopic?
hey fuck you
Dear Madonna,I strongly suggest you listen to Duchess by Genesis a couple of times and then just hang up your pointy bras.
She should def take career advice from some nobody on the internet lol naw i think she’ll go make more millions on her sell out tour instead…
That’s good. Biopics are dumb.
Holy shit Madonna is still alive? I thought she’d withered away. Good for her.
hey fuck you
She’s never gonna suck and fuck you bro.
hey fuck you
She looks like a porn actress that just can’t let go…
What’s the difference between a Jewish mother and a porn actress?
This is a weird Carnac bit, but let’s see where it’s going.
yukka!
hey fuck you
She’s already living the part… so her next movie should be Sunset Boulevard the musical
This is great news, as it will clear the field for my Maddy Organa biopic starring Jenna Maroney.
She has a shit load of money and she worked her ass off for it so whatever she wants to do… But, damn, as a feminist, I hate to see what she’s done to herself. I always wanted to believe that she had more substance than a lot of pop stars, but then there was the Guy Ritchie marriage where she played the English Country Wife and all of the other personas. Personally, I think she’s gone off the deep end and it’s tragic to see it. I can respect the hustle, but it makes her philanthropy look purely performative. And that would track,.
if you want to see someone age gracefully, cyndi lauper would be the better bet.i admit, i have sort of a blind spot when it comes to madonna. but i don’t think her…current…shenanigans take away from what she’s done. she had the catholic church clutching their pearls for like 10 years, lolyes, she’s egotistical and an exhibitionist, but she always has been; why is it a problem now?
Maybe she just needs more time. Madonna has to think about her whole life before she directs a movie based on it!
[Madonna bursts in on one of her dancers, Botox in hand.]Dancer: “Get out of here, Madonna, you don’t want no part of this shit!”
The most logical choice of course was for Madonna to play herself under various degrees of deaging CGI. And Nathan Fielder could have directed. Someone please just greenlight this.
If they could somehow merge the Madonna tour with The Rehearsal, we would never need another piece of entertainment ever again.
they weirdly have similar energy now that you say it, and now I want this made.
To say Madonna is past her prime is an understatement. I saw her live for the Rebel Heart tour (2015-2016). The fan concensus is that the Girlie Show tour (1993) and the Drowned tour (2001) was her live performance peak.
Gotta love how the photo of her that looks like Ilsa She Wolf of the SS keeps being the header.
I’m not surprised that she made those people go through all that for nothing, always been the word that she’s a jerk
A Hollywood Reporter story on the cancellation says that the casting process for prospective Madonnas included 11-hour days of choreography sessions, readings with Madonna, and singing auditions.Isn’t there something in the Geneva Conventions about that?
At least Julia can play herself trying out for the cancelled biopic if/when it ever gets going.
spare us
To be perfectly honest Madonna is totally unrecognizable anymore. Like I get it we all age, but at this point she almost looks like a caricature of herself.
Likely her ego couldn’t stand seeing a younger, hotter version of herself pretending to be her and doing a better job.
Julia Garner could have played younger Madonna and Jennifer Coolidge the Las Vegas Madonna.
it’s “plum role.” she’s not fixing a toilet.