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Madonna and Shawn Levy Team Up for Netflix Limited Series on Her Life

The pop icon's life story is being reimagined as a limited series, with Julia Garner likely to reprise her role as Madonna, pending availability.

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US singer songwriter Madonna arrives for the 2025 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025, in New York.
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Overview

  • Netflix and Shawn Levy's 21 Laps are developing a limited series about Madonna's life, marking a departure from the previously scrapped Universal biopic.
  • Madonna and Levy will serve as executive producers, with the project in early development and no writer yet attached.
  • Julia Garner, who was cast in the earlier biopic, is the leading candidate to play Madonna, though her involvement remains unconfirmed.
  • The series' narrative scope, whether covering Madonna's entire career or focusing on specific periods, has not yet been determined.
  • Madonna's involvement in the writing process remains unclear, though she co-wrote the Universal biopic's script with Diablo Cody and Erin Cressida Wilson.