Jon Chu addresses Britney Spears Biopic Casting Rumors

Jobs Men set the record directly to cast the legends for its Britney Spears Biopic.

“(We) have not yet been about casting this film,” Chu confirmed, 45 years, Sunday 23rd March via X.

The Evil Director responded to speculation Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter and Millie Bobby Brown They were all running to play the singer “Gimme More”, 43. Evil The fans were particularly enthusiastic about the prospect that Grande would potentially meet with her awarded success with a musical in which Costarr as Glinda.

But the filmmaker completely shot down the rumors by writing on X: “None of this is true. It sounds exciting, but he hadn’t had one conversation about the cast of this movie. We’re too early in development. Sorry.”

Period In August 2024, he informed that Hu had joined universal pictures on the film adaptation of Spears’ 2023 New York Times Bestsellery Memoir The woman in me. The memoir describes in detail the Spears’ aircraft battle for liberation from the conservatory, which dominated her life personally and professionally.

Several remarkable stars expressed interest in playing spears, including Brown, 21, revealing Show Drew Barrymore In 2022 (long before the publication Memoir) she felt enthusiastic about the life story of a “toxic” singer.

“I want to play a real person and I think for me, Britney. (It) would be Britney Spears,” Brown said host Drew Barrymore. “I think her story resonates with me. He just grew up, watched her videos, watched her conversations when she was younger – I see a scramble for words and I don’t know her, but when I look at her pictures, I feel like I could tell her story in the right way and her.”

Spears looked less than enthusiastic About Brown’s Film Field, which indicates the Instagram at the time it was premature to turn your life into a Hollywood film.

“Good news, good news !!! He still breathes … I hear about people who want to make movies about my life … buddy, I’m not dead !!!” Spears wrote via Instagram in November 2022.

American horror story star Emma Roberts was later recommended by former SPEARS assistant, Felicia Culottaas The ideal cast for a movie.

“I liked,” I love her assistant, “” Roberts, 34, later joking Cosmopolitan In August 2024.

“I think I remember that I locked in my room and listened in the zone and said,” I can’t leave this room until I remember every word, ” Ahs The actress remembered.

Biopic Chu Director has a lot of experience in solving projects with music theme Justin BieberConcert films Never say never and Believein 2011 and 2013. Later he directed the film version Lin-manuel MirandaBroadway breakthrough At heights in 2021 and received a return for 2024 Evil.

AND Evil continuation with the name Wicked: Foreverhits the cinemas in November 2025. Founded on the second act of the Hit OZ inspired by the Broadway show with the same name, Hu’s musical re -connects him with Grande and Cynthia ErivaWho returns as Glinda and Elphaba.

In January 2025, Chu warned Spears Superfans that it would be a “long way” before the biopic was completed because he wanted to ensure authenticity and sensitivity.

“I am a big fan of Britney. I have been a fan since I was young and she was young and she was one of the 12 acts in the Squise of the auditorium,” he said Fun tonight. “So I want to make her justice and tell her story correctly.”

Meanwhile was reported in February Britney agreed to cover her father Jamie Spears“Excellent legal accounts resulting from the conservatory in the total amount of over $ 2.12 million. The couple also agreed that Britney’s payments resolved any persistent disputes with their father concerning its conservatory in 2021.