Madonna: "Should I make the story of my life into a series or a feature film?"

[EnigmaticAndroid]

A miniseries makes sense in theory, but it will never not be hard as hell to capture the entire breadth of her career and personal life in a season of TV (or movie) that's complete, well-developed, and stands as a technical piece of storytelling. It'd be very easy for it to end up rushed and clunky.

 

If fans mainly want to see all her eras get represented, I've always felt that going the Mamma Mia route would be the best way. You could have her hits and songs from all her albums centered around one original story. 

[Vermillion]

14 hours ago, Oktober Knight said:

Episode 1: childhood in Michigan till she arrives in NYC 

 

Episode 2: dancing school, being poor, assaulted, robbed, joining a band, making Everybody

 

Episode 3: Debut album and Like A Virgin explosion, The Virgin Tour

 

Episode 4: Sean Penn marriage and abuse, True Blue, divorce

 

Episode 5: Like A Prayer video controversy, LAP album, Pepsi controversy, Blond Ambition Tour 

 

Episode 6: Erotica controversy, Bedtime Stories, Evita success 

 

Episode 7: Lordes' birth, Ray of Light, Rocco's birth, Music

 

Episode 8: Guy Richie marriage, American Life, Confessions On A Dance Floor 

 

Episode 9: Guy Richie divorce, Hard Candy, Sticky & Sweet Tour

 

Episode 10: Malawi, adoptions, Super Bowl, near death experience, Celebration Tour/Rio biggest concert ever

Where  Is  Tupac  

[LOTF]

16 hours ago, Elementary said:

Why not use a non linear approach in which each episode shows her life in flashbacks while it shows a bit more about her present dealing with ageism and media scrutiny while she works on a new tell-all album/song. It would go deeper into who Madonna is as a character and what has led her to this point in life. 

This would be a gag

[Movimento Perpétuo]

Whatever, mom. Just drop it 

 

[Movimento Perpétuo]

19 hours ago, Oktober Knight said:

Episode 1: childhood in Michigan till she arrives in NYC 

 

Episode 2: dancing school, being poor, assaulted, robbed, joining a band, making Everybody

 

Episode 3: Debut album and Like A Virgin explosion, The Virgin Tour

 

Episode 4: Sean Penn marriage and abuse, True Blue, divorce

 

Episode 5: Like A Prayer video controversy, LAP album, Pepsi controversy, Blond Ambition Tour 

 

Episode 6: Erotica controversy, Bedtime Stories, Evita success 

 

Episode 7: Lordes' birth, Ray of Light, Rocco's birth, Music

 

Episode 8: Guy Richie marriage, American Life, Confessions On A Dance Floor 

 

Episode 9: Guy Richie divorce, Hard Candy, Sticky & Sweet Tour

 

Episode 10: Malawi, adoptions, Super Bowl, near death experience, Celebration Tour/Rio biggest concert ever

Wait...I love this!

[Capris Groove]

Okay but ffr, her both writing the screenplay and directing a project about HER life would be a disaster. It'll be completely overworked and will lack the necessary objectivity. There are very few accomplished directors who can also write screenplays (Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Greta Gerwig), let alone Madonna who can't direct for ****.

 

Let someone else write the screenplay, and another person direct it.

[ChrisTheLoner]

You can fit way more into a series, so a Series >>>>>>>>>>

 

[1989]

On 11/18/2024 at 2:31 PM, HardBambi said:

Do something else, do your eyebrows 

(who does their own life story?)

This, I don't know why she's so hellbent on this 

 

OT: The Queen's life will get covered in due time, can she please focus on anything else 

[P.O.P]

On 11/18/2024 at 9:22 PM, Vixen Eyes said:

I would love a series if there's a DVD release once it's wrapped up

Girl you might as well ask for a photo-novel, do they even still do DVDs 

[Beyoncelovesme]

Series! Most def. 

[Vixen Eyes]

1 hour ago, P.O.P said:

Girl you might as well ask for a photo-novel, do they even still do DVDs 

I just last week bought a DVD of RAYE's My 21st Century Symphony lol 

[Vixen Eyes]

1 hour ago, 1989 said:

This, I don't know why she's so hellbent on this 

 

OT: The Queen's life will get covered in due time, can she please focus on anything else 

I'd rather the story come directly from her because she actually lived it in real time versus some second or third party

[Katamari]

yeah this is never getting released 

[Aries Groove]

Series! Without hesitation !

[Polgg48]

As for madge, her brief childhood transition to New York hustling to the success of second album is probably what casual/non-fans look forward as a private phase of her life before stardom and we already know how her career been after that.

 

For mini-series, the beginning, true blue to erotica, the fallen to the repeak to the fallen again, hung up to Superbowl and cut it. Sad that she is too egomaniac to control the production but alas

[JustHoran]

Movie.

 

A series could easily be forgotten, tbh. Plus a show on Madonna? Sounds like a flop. Girl, just do the movie already or shelve it.

[JustHoran]

2 hours ago, Katamari said:

yeah this is never getting released 

yeah tbh I feel like this will be scrapped and then years from now one will be made when she's dead. I wish she'd just do it, but if it's not going to be good just don't.

[Lover]

Producers of Madonna's upcoming biopic rejected singer's 'ludicrous' demand for $100 million

[JoeAg]

On 11/18/2024 at 7:51 PM, nostalgic said:

What's Love Got to Do with It was pretty impactful.

first one that came to mind for me too  brilliant film with two career highlight performances from the two main actors, and honestly felt like such an important film. RIP Tina 

 

I think Madonna has important stories that've happened in her life that, if approached gracefully and with scant campiness, could be impactful in film format. it's just hard to say though still… cause I feel like her vision might potentially clash with the proposed visions of other people who are more accomplished in the motion picture industry. her artistry is brilliant, her story is timeless… but she's proven that music, short form videos, dancing, and performing are where her greatest talents lie 🫠

[Oktober Knight]

2 hours ago, Lover said:

Producers of Madonna's upcoming biopic rejected singer's 'ludicrous' demand for $100 million

100m is not that much tho for a movie budget 

[Young In Love]

i could see two movies actually working out

imagine a first one ending with the Blonde Ambition tour like someone mentioned, it gets great reviews, etc

and then she could release another one starting with Erotica, controversy and ending up with the high note of COAD 

[artc0cx]

I wouldn't watch either

[BlahBlahBlah]

She's my number one but I don't think I would watch this tbh, no offense. It feels too final and end-of-career. 

[tiagol88]

3 hours ago, Lover said:

Producers of Madonna's upcoming biopic rejected singer's 'ludicrous' demand for $100 million

That's literally not a lot when compared to other biopics lmao

[Mordecai]

She should do both, I don't see why she couldn't

 

Her career is too vast to have it be covered in a single film, so it should focus only on a certain part of her career like her rise to stardom, kinda like RBG's biopic

 

Then a year or two later have it be followed up with a miniseries that covers her career in full depth