Madonna's Shelved Biopic Gets New Hope After Julia Garner's Latest Remarks
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Madonna's Shelved Biopic Gets New Hope After Julia Garner's Latest Remarks

Actress Julia Garner says Madonna's long-stalled biopic has to get made, giving fresh hope to a project shelved since 2023.

Madonna's shelved biopic has gotten fresh hope after a Julia Garner's latest remarks.

The Long Sip
What happened

Julia Garner has publicly insisted Madonna's shelved biopic has to get made, reigniting hope for the project three years after it stalled.

The detail

Universal Pictures put the film on hold in 2023, but Garner told ELLE magazine she remains enthusiastic and has never treated it as definitively over.

And then

Garner and Madonna both appeared in a Hollywood comedy episode poking fun at the stalled project, and the two spent time together filming in Venice.

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What readers are saying

Sandra
The mention of Madonna wanting a massive budget because she has had a huge life is classic producer talk for a project that likely lacked a clear narrative focus. If she is still refusing to use the script unless she buys it back from Universal at an extortionist price, the Netflix series idea is probably just as stalled as the film.
dawn1993
While the focus is on the budget falling out, Universal likely held onto the script rights as a standard intellectual property protection after two years of development costs. It is common for studios to set high buy-back prices to recoup their initial investment in the screenwriting and pre-production phases.
joy_herveybay
If you want to see what the film might have looked like, you can actually watch the Seth Rogen comedy The Studio to see Garner and Madonna together... It seems that cameo is the closest we will get to this movie for a long time.

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