{"id":250672,"date":"2026-07-08T03:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/britney-spears-biopic-still-in-the-works-as-new-girl-creator-liz-meriwether-joins-project\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:15:56","slug":"britney-spears-biopic-still-in-the-works-as-new-girl-creator-liz-meriwether-joins-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/britney-spears-biopic-still-in-the-works-as-new-girl-creator-liz-meriwether-joins-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Biopic Still in the Works as New Girl Creator Liz Meriwether Joins Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> So it appears that the highly anticipated film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling <b>Britney Spears<\/b> memoir <b><i>The Woman In Me<\/i><\/b> is still in development. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britney Spears Biopic Movie to Be Written by &#8216;New Girl&#8217; Creator Liz Meriwether <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RJeF7AZhph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/RJeF7AZhph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2074564256662450561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <b><i>New Girl<\/i><\/b> creator and <b><i>Dying for Sex<\/i><\/b> co-creator <b>Liz Meriwether<\/b> will pen the screenplay for Universal\u2019s forthcoming biopic from director <b>Jon M. Chu<\/b> and producer <b>Marc Platt<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128909756.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news broke that Universal Pictures landed the rights<\/a> to the Grammy-winner\u2019s bestselling tome with <b><i>Wicked<\/i><\/b> director Chu and producer Platt attached to develop the feature.<\/p>\n<p><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2074564256662450561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132563170.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that the highly anticipated film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling Britney Spears memoir The Woman In Me is still in development. Britney Spears Biopic Movie to Be Written by &#8216;New Girl&#8217; Creator Liz Meriwether https:\/\/t.co\/RJeF7AZhph \u2014 Variety (@Variety) July 7, 2026 New Girl creator and Dying for Sex co-creator Liz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}