‘I’ve had a big life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic scrapped after ‘fallout’ with studio | Video

Madonna says the long-awaited biopic she is directing has been scrapped after a dispute with Hollywood studio Universal over the film’s budget.

Speaking to Interview magazineMadonna said: “We had a disagreement, me and Universal, about the budget because I wanted to – I had a wonderful life.

The singer said that he wanted to switch to Serbia to save money, but the studio did not agree. “I found a way to make a little money in Serbia, but I don’t think they had the idea of ​​- I don’t know. Maybe they didn’t believe me. One of their first reactions was: ‘We don’t believe you can stay in Serbia for more than four days.’

He added: “I said, ‘Have you ever read it? My whole life has been survival. I never go on vacation.'”

The project was first announced in 2020Madonna plans to direct the script Young Leader by Diablo Cody. “It’s important to share the rise of my life with my voice and my vision,” Madonna said at the time. It followed his criticism of the controversial film Blond Ambition, referring to his original work, which Universal acquired in 2017. “Why would Universal Studios want to make a film about me using texts that are lies???” he said in an Instagram post.

Julia Garner was cast in the lead role after a difficult casting, which became known as “Madonna bootcamp”but reports came out in 2023 that the film, which he had a duty to work who is the girl had been removed.

Madonna has directed two films, both of which received one-star reviews from the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: Dirt is Wisdomabout a Ukrainian singer trying to make it in London, and WEof Wallis Simpson and the late Edward VIII. He also has an acting career, including Finding Susan, Dick Tracy, Evita and The Next Best Thing.

In an interview, Madonna said that she could not find it the Netflix series they want he pulled out, because he was thwarted by Universal’s ownership of the script he wrote for the film. “Netflix reached out to make a series. That was another long process, because I couldn’t use the script I had with Universal unless I bought it from them at a bargain price, even though I wrote…