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Madonna is opening up astir nan biopic that Universal Pictures axed and revealing why it did not move forward.
In a caller interview, nan Material Girl said nan main logic nan biopic was shelved was nan budget.
“I was expected to make a movie astir my life. I worked connected my book for 2 years and spent 2 years astatine Universal Studios pinch nan statement producers doing budgeting and casting,” Madonna said successful Interview magazine.
She continued, “We had a falling out, maine and Universal, regarding fund because I needed — I’ve had an bonzer life. I’ve had a immense life, truthful I needed a large budget. You cognize what I mean?”
Madonna was co-writing nan movie and was attached to nonstop arsenic well. Over nan years, Diablo Cody and Erin Cressida Wilson were besides attached to write, pinch Julia Garner confirmed to play Madonna connected nan large screen.
The vocalist said that Universal “couldn’t get their heads astir it. I recovered a measurement to make it for little money successful Serbia, but I don’t deliberation they were into nan thought of—I don’t know.”
“Maybe they conscionable didn’t judge successful me. One of their first reactions was, ‘We don’t judge you’d enactment successful Serbia much than 4 days.’ And I said, ‘Did you publication nan script?’ My full life has been survival. I’m not going location for a holiday,” she added. “But anyway, I was successful limbo erstwhile that fell apart, and past Netflix reached retired to make a series. That was a full different agelong process, because I couldn’t usage nan book I had pinch Universal unless I bought it from them for an extortionist’s price, moreover though I wrote it. Don’t ask.”
“That’s conscionable nan measurement it goes. I started trying to understand really making a bid would work. It’s a very, very different process. You person to meet a batch of writers and find nan correct showrunner, and I couldn’t find one. This went connected for different 8 aliases 9 months. I was like, ‘Good point I person different occupation because I request to work, I request to create. I request to do what I was put connected this world to do.'”
In 2025, Deadline reported that Madonna was teaming up pinch Shawn Levy for a limited bioseries astatine Netflix. Later that year, Julia Garner said that playing Madonna successful a biopic was still “a activity successful progress.”
