Madonna Reveals the Reason Her Biopic Got Scrapped + How this Led to ‘Confessions II’

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The video leverages a popular celebrity and a topic of public interest (a scrapped biopic and a new album) to generate engagement. The use of multiple images and short, digestible clips keeps the viewer engaged, while the narrative structure of explaining the 'why' behind the biopic's cancellation and the subsequent album release provides a compelling story.

Summary

This video discusses the reasons behind the cancellation of Madonna's biopic, which was initially in development with Universal Pictures. The biopic was scrapped due to a budget dispute between Madonna and the studio, leading Madonna to pursue other projects like her new album, 'Confessions 2'.

Structure

1Introduction to Madonna's scrapped biopic and the 'Confessions II' album
2Details on the audition process and Julia Garner's casting
3Reasons for the biopic's cancellation, including budget disputes and Madonna's tour
4Madonna's attempt to make the film in Serbia and Netflix's interest in a series
5The development of the 'Confessions II' album and its high-budget rollout

Product placement

The video discusses Madonna's biopic and her new album 'Confessions 2'. It mentions Universal Pictures and Netflix as studios involved in the projects. It also references Warner Records in relation to the album rollout.

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Madonna Reveals the Reason Her Biopic Got Scrapped + How this Led to ‘Confessions II’ Madonna has finally addressed why her highly anticipated biopic got scrapped and how the result of this led to her creating this new album Confessions 2. You probably remember the boot camp style audition process that Madonna had for her biopic that included actors and singers like Alexa Demie, Sydney Sweeney, Florence Pugh, Julia Garner, and Bebe Rexha. There was a lot of work being put into this like think K-pop style training, but for the Madonna movie. Eventually the role went to Julia Garner and the project was in development with Universal Pictures. However in 2023 the project got scrapped and it seemed like the reason was that Madonna just announced a world tour and was focusing on that. But now we know the reason was actually that Madonna had a falling out with Universal Pictures regarding budgeting for the film. In her new interview cover story she said that she felt like she deserved a huge budget because she has lived such an extraordinary life which is definitely true, but Universal was just not into that. She even said that she was willing to go to Serbia and make the film so that it would be less expensive like she really wanted to make this work, which is why it's kind of sad that it fell through. After the film got scrapped, she said that Netflix reached out to her wanting to make a series, but she couldn't use that script that she had with Universal unless she bought it from them for what she called an extortionist's price. She did start the process of finding writers and a showrunner for this series, but it was taking such a long time and our Queen just wanted to work. So that's why she started the Confessions 2 album. Even though she couldn't get the budgeting figured out for her film, I'm so glad that she was able to get a big budget from Warner Records for this new album rollout like she just released her confessions 2 film which features high budget visuals from six songs off the album. she did a full surprise performance in Times Square, like everything with this rollout is giving big budget which is why it's been so fun to witness as a fan. the biopic would have been so good though so I'm hoping that everything works out with that Netflix series.

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Madonna has finally addressed why her highly anticipated biopic got scrapped and how the result of this led to her creating this new album Confessions 2. You probably remember the boot camp style audition process that Madonna had for her biopic that included actors and singers like Alexa Demie, Sydney Sweeney, Florence Pugh, Julia Garner, and Bebe Rexha. There was a lot of work being put into this like think K-pop style training, but for the Madonna movie. Eventually the role went to Julia Garner and the project was in development with Universal Pictures. However in 2023 the project got scrapped and it seemed like the reason was that Madonna just announced a world tour and was focusing on that. But now we know the reason was actually that Madonna had a falling out with Universal Pictures regarding budgeting for the film. In her new interview cover story she said that she felt like she deserved a huge budget because she has lived such an extraordinary life which is definitely true, but Universal was just not into that. She even said that she was willing to go to Serbia and make the film so that it would be less expensive like she really wanted to make this work, which is why it's kind of sad that it fell through. After the film got scrapped, she said that Netflix reached out to her wanting to make a series, but she couldn't use that script that she had with Universal unless she bought it from them for what she called an extortionist's price. She did start the process of finding writers and a showrunner for this series, but it was taking such a long time and our Queen just wanted to work. So that's why she started the Confessions 2 album. Even though she couldn't get the budgeting figured out for her film, I'm so glad that she was able to get a big budget from Warner Records for this new album rollout like she just released her Confessions 2 film which features high budget visuals from six songs off the album. She did a full surprise performance in Times Square, like everything with this rollout is giving big budget, which is why it's been so fun to witness as a fan. The biopic would have been so good though, so I'm hoping that everything works out with that Netflix series.