On August 8 2020, Vulture brought the exciting news. Madonna hinted she was collaborating with Diablo Cody, screenwriter of Juno and Tully. The “announcement” came via a caption for an Instagram post on Madonna’s profile: “”When you’re stuck in a house with multiple injuries what do you do? Write a screenplay with Diablo Cody about …?”

Then, nothing until September 11 when, as reported by Entertainment Weekly, Madonna and Diablo Cody followed up on their hint with the official announcement — again, via Instagram — that their collaboration was directed towards a Madonna biopic. “[The film will be] about my struggle as an artist trying to survive in a man’s world as a woman, and really just the journey, Madonna explained during the Live session.

So far, 107 pages have been written for a film projected to have a two hour run time. In those two hours, the movie will chart the beats of her career with scenes like her writing “Like a Prayer“, the controversy around the music video that lost her a Pepsi sponsorship, and her work with the ballroom dancers Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza and Luis Xtravaganza in creating “Vogue.” 

Of these sections, the only one to have drawn comment so far is the depiction of Madonna’s time filming the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical Evita: “I’m not sure [Weber] even wanted me in the movie.” To this, his spokesperson has issued a denial.

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