Overview
- Reports from industry outlets on Tuesday say Elizabeth 'Liz' Meriwether has been hired to write and finish the screenplay for a film based on Britney Spears's memoir The Woman in Me.
- Universal Pictures holds the rights to the memoir and has already attached Jon M. Chu as director and Marc Platt as producer to the project.
- Meriwether is expected to complete a first full version of a script that Chu and Platt began, which studio coverage describes as the key creative step before casting.
- No casting choice for who will play Spears has been announced and the film has not entered production.
- The source memoir was a major bestseller that details Spears's career, relationships and her long conservatorship, and the project is likely to prompt public debate about portrayal and consent as it moves forward.