Jon M. Chu can’t get enough of these misunderstood women. The director of both upcoming Wicked movies is now attached to direct an adaptation of Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, according to a new report by the Ankler. The book chronicles, among other topics, the singer navigating her conservatorship, her struggles with the spotlight, and that time Justin Timberlake apparently greeted Ginuwine with an insane blaccent. Chu made the deal along with Wicked producer Marc Platt for Universal, winning a bidding war that included Sony, Warner Bros., Fox, Disney, and Netflix, per the Ankler. Spears seemingly confirmed the news on X, teasing a “secret project.†The memoir is already associated with one famous blonde actress — Michelle Williams voiced the audiobook — but it seems unlikely that she’ll reprise her role in the film adaptation. Here are our best guesses:
– Tate McRae, who is already doing an impression of Spears dancing in her music videos
– Sydney Sweeney, who is famously good at playing emotionally vulnerable women with vocal fry
– Addison Rae, hot girl at large
– Heather Morris, an expert at those Britney numbers on Glee
– RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Tatianna, whose Britney Spears Snatch Game remains an all-timer (this one with apologies to Derrick Berry)