Filmmaker Jon M. Chu recently commented that pop star Britney Spears is “very involved” in a brand new movie that will be based on her best-selling book, “The Woman in Me,” which is the story of her life. No doubt superstar Justin Timberlake is shaking in his Nikes somewhere as his romantic relationship with the singer is surely going to make him look like bad guy. And to be fair, that description is accurate. Just read the book and you’ll understand why.
The comments were made during an interview that took place on the red carpet at the Golden Globes with Billboard magazine. The “Wicked” director stated that he wasn’t able to really discuss the project, which is being produced by Universal Pictures, however, he said he’s a huge fan of Spears and her work.
“I’ve been a fan since I was young and she was young and she was one of 12 acts at the Shrine Auditorium,” Chu said in the interview, according to the Daily Wire. “So I want to do her justice and tell her story right. But we’ll see. We’re developing it now and it’s a long road ahead.”
“She’s going to be very involved,” he continued, according to a report from Entertainment Tonight. “I haven’t really started anything fully yet, but she will be very involved in this. I have ideas and things, an approach, but it’s very early.”
Director Jon M. Chu says Britney Spears will be “very involved” in the upcoming biopic based on her memoir, ‘The Woman In Me.’ pic.twitter.com/w4jDKWn0H9
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In November, the director confirmed the movie was happening, telling the Hollywood Reporter that the script wasn’t even written yet. However, Chu did say that he expects it to be “a lot about how we treat people, young people, stars that we think we own, women, mothers.” Variety previously reported that Universal Pictures had bought the rights to Spears’ tell-all memoir which centers on her rise to fame, her nearly 14-year-long conservatorship, and her relationship with Justin Timberlake when she was younger.
In the memoir-released in October 2023- Spears revealed that while she and Timberlake were dating she got pregnant at 19 and ended up getting an abortion, claiming that it was in large part because Timberlake “didn’t want to be a father.”
Now you understand why I stated that Timberlake is a bad guy. Anyone who advocates for the murder of their unborn child is just plain evil. And that label squarely fits over this dude. The two pop music sensations began seeing each other in 1999. Britney Spears was 17, Timberlake was 18. They were together until 2002.
Spears then wrote that if he hadn’t been pressuring her, she would not have had the abortion, however, she did say that the two of them were “too young” for children.
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“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” the former “The Mickey Mouse Club” star said in her memoir. “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.”
“But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” she continued. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
“I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” the singer added. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father. To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”