EXCLUSIVE: Global music superstar
Madonna has partnered with global streamer
Netflix to tell her story. A limited series about her life and music is in early development at Netflix, with Madonna and
Shawn Levy, whose 21 Laps has an exclusive TV overall deal at the platform, executive producing, Deadline has learned. A rep for Netflix declined comment.
The duo, who had been discussing the project for awhile, are starting from scratch: the biographical limited series is not related to the Madonna feature biopic which was previously in development at Universal with three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner as the choice to play the Queen of Pop.
It is early days of development on the TV series, so it is unclear yet which period in Madonna’s decades-spanning career it will focus on. Still, Garner has remained engaged — she famously appeared alongside Madonna on stage at the singer’s Celebration Tour in December 2023 — and I hear the
Ozark star would most likely play Madonna, subject of availability as she doesn’t have a deal. (Garner would also feel right at home at Netflix where she
just signed on her for her third series, an FTX limited series, following her turns on
Inventing Anna and
Ozark.)
It is also too early to tell whether Madonna would be involved in the writing; she co-wrote the proposed feature.
