🏆Oscar winner director Sofia Coppola is asked about doing a movie based on The Woman in Me

[Fita]

Sofia Coppola, director, producer and screenwriter who is behind movies like Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and the newest Priscilla, a biopic based on Priscilla Presley's best-selling memoir Elvis & I was asked in a Vogue interview whether she'd direct a movie based on Brit's The Woman in Me. And this is what she answered:

(Vogue) Before you go, I wanted to ask if you've read Britney Spears’s memoir yet? 

(Sofia) No, I haven’t yet! How is it? 

(V) It’s very powerful. And maybe it’s just because I’ve had both her book and Priscilla on the brain, but I couldn’t help but visualize your version of the film as I read it—there are a lot of passages in the latter half of the book where she talks about being locked in her big LA mansion and stripped of her autonomy during the conservatorship that felt very Virgin Suicides. I’m curious if Britney is an artist you have any relationship with and if that’s a film you’d ever wanna make? 

(S) You know, I have a fascination with Britney because my generation grew up with her. I have such affection for her and everything that happened to her. I’m naturally curious so I do wanna read it, but I’m not gonna say I’d do the movie. I might have to wait a little while before reading her book after just spending so much time in a different locked prison of suppressed womanhood.

Edited December 15, 2023 by Fita

[Emil87]

I’m not even sure who she is but even I know she’s a big deal in Hollywood. Having the book turned into a movie in the future is pretty exciting. 

[pablitonizer]

That's nice! Sofia is a great film maker 

 

I'd love to see The Woman In Me movie adaption being made by a very empowered and strong woman 

Or Baz Luhrmann 

Edited December 15, 2023 by pablitonizer

[Almost Mystical]

Sofia have fascination on oppressed pretty girl, but in a good emphatic way. And she’s an Oscar winning director, a very good director. All the stills from Lost in Translation is so artistic and wallpaper worthy. It could be her magnum opus if she decided to take on woman in me, because Britney’s story have so many depth. 

The only downside is her take can be a bit victimizing to the female protagonist. I don’t know if Britney might be up for that. But she’s a female director, and she will respect Britney’s story and her perspective. 
 
 

My vote is yes, go read that book and come back with a screen play. 

[Fita]

1 hour ago, Almost Mystical said:

Sofia have fascination on oppressed pretty girl, but in a good emphatic way. And she’s an Oscar winning director, a very good director. All the stills from Lost in Translation is so artistic and wallpaper worthy. It could be her magnum opus if she decided to take on woman in me, because Britney’s story have so many depth. 

The only downside is her take can be a bit victimizing to the female protagonist. I don’t know if Britney might be up for that. But she’s a female director, and she will respect Britney’s story and her perspective. 
 
 

My vote is yes, go read that book and come back with a screen play. 

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I like Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette which I've watched a few times but I'm not sure if I like how Marie Antoinette was portrayed - but i'm not sure how she was in real life anyways, so, lol.

I think it'd be interesting if Sofia makes an empathic feminist movie with a bit of melancholy but not too much. Goofyness and joy too, showing Britney's art and her charismatic personality. But I think Britney still think it is a move for dead artists only. But I guess she might change her mind in the future. Who knows. But she'd have to enjoy to do it.

[trip to my touch]

would be such a dream come true!!!!

[Bluemoonpj]

She’s my favorite director and in my opinion the best choice to make this movie. Watch her (2006) movie Marie Antoinette. It’s a great depiction of how you can have all the wealth and opulence in the world but without freedom and a say in your own life, you’re still in a prison. I think that applies during much if Britney’s life and Coppola handled that theme well. 

Edited December 15, 2023 by Bluemoonpj
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[HearMeOnYourRadio]

5 hours ago, Emil87 said:

I’m not even sure who she is but even I know she’s a big deal in Hollywood. Having the book turned into a movie in the future is pretty exciting. 

She’s my personal favorite. She has a really dreamy and melancholic style. I think she could really bring an authentic element to the story. 

[femmepop]

She's my favorite director also.

wow that was nice what she said about her, very thoughtful.

Stages is basically  Marie Antoinette  but without all the beautiful aesthetics.

omg this would be just be so perfect and I totally imagined it as a Sofia movie the whole time I was reading.

[pop analyst]

22 minutes ago, femmepop said:

She's my favorite director also.

wow that was nice what she said about her, very thoughtful.

Stages is basically  Marie Antoinette  but without all the beautiful aesthetics.

omg this would be just be so perfect and I totally imagined it as a Sofia movie the whole time I was reading.

we totally agree!

[Jup1ter]

I love her movies!

I still have to check Priscilla tho, I’m late cause I just don’t think I’m interested in another Elvis movie bc that Elvis movie was brutally great and disturbing and with parallels to B stories, I will def watch it tho 

I love this one, I love it first time I saw it, it’s my Aftersun movie from the 2000s lol

(with Stephen Dorff, the guy from the Everytime Britney video)

 

Edited December 16, 2023 by Jup1ter