Overview
- Julia Garner told CBS that she does not know if the movie will be made and that the project’s status “changes every hour,” stressing the decision is not hers.
- The biopic was first announced in 2020 and Garner was personally chosen to play a young Madonna in 2022 after an intense singing and dancing audition process.
- Madonna says she spent two years writing and budgeting the film with Universal and that a dispute over the size of the budget prompted a falling-out that paused the project.
- Industry reports say writers Diablo Cody and Erin Cressida Wilson worked on scripts and that talks have explored alternatives, including a 2025 report of a Netflix development, but no new production has been confirmed.
- Garner and Madonna have kept a public working relationship, which keeps the casting intact, and the next signs the project will move forward are a studio agreement on budget or a new production partner or format.