Jon M. Chu Will Not Cast Britney Spears Actor Until the Story for Movie Biopic Is Locked: ‘Not Even Thinking About Casting’

The filmmaker teases he's seen 'glimpses' of Liz Meriwether's 'profound' script.

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

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It may be some time before cameras begin to roll on Jon M. Chu’s Britney Spears movie biopic, but the “Wicked” filmmaker has read some of the script from writer Liz Meriwether.

“She’s doing many beautiful things and I may or may have not gotten glimpses of what she’s been doing and it’s incredible,” Chu told me Saturday at the opening gala of the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. “It’s incredible, profound, beautiful. And that’s all I can say about it. You already got me to say too much.”

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