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New Girl<\/em> and Furious<\/em> screenwriter Liz Meriwether has been doing all the things one does when preparing for a biopic on one of the world\u2019s most famous pop icons. She\u2019s listening to the Michelle Williams-read audiobook of Britney Spears\u2018 2023 The Woman in Me<\/em> memoir, and, in news that should warm the hearts of the Britney Army, she is seemingly doing a deep dive into Brit\u2019s music, at least as evidenced by which tracks she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> are her current favorites from the singer\u2019s nine-LP catalog.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tYung Miami Is Ready for Her Solo Debut Thanks to ‘Spend Dat’: ‘People Are About to Eat Their Words’\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tDoja Cat Appears Not to Have Any Idea Who Ella Langley Is: ‘I Don’t Know’\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tCloud Nine’s Takuya Chigira Talks Ado’s WME Deal, J-Pop Event Zipangu & Paving the Way to the World for Japan’s Artists\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tBritney Spears\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\tMeriwether spoke to the magazine about the task of adapting the tell-all into a film and though details of what the movie will look, and sound like are scarce, she did delve into her prep for the project that will team her with the creative hive mind behind the pair of hit Wicked<\/em> films, director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt; Universal has not yet confirmed any details about the adaptation.<\/p>\n \n\tMeriwether told THR<\/em> that it\u2019s still early in the process, but she\u2019s spoken to Chu and Platt \u201cso much\u201d already and found them to be very collaborative. \u201cI\u2019m so used to being the final word on everything,\u201d she said of her frequent dual roles in the past as writer and showrunner. \u201cBut it feels really relaxing at the moment because I\u2019m writing something and I don\u2019t have to be the one to figure this out \u2026 I get to just be a writer and that\u2019s fun.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tShe noted that she\u2019s both read the hard copy and listened to The Woman in Me<\/em> audiobook \u201cmultiple times,\u201d praising her former Dying For Sex<\/em> collaborator Michelle Williams for just crushing the audiobook read. \u201cMichelle is unbelievable. It\u2019s like a monologue. I told her that her performance of the audiobook broke my heart in so many ways,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s being true to Britney and also telling a story in the way she\u2019s reading it. Another spoiler: Michelle\u2019s a really good actor. Maybe I\u2019ll turn a script in to Mark and Jon that\u2019s just Michelle on a stage, reading. I wonder what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSpears\u2019 plainspoken memoir traces her career from her humble beginnings in Louisiana to her rise to pop superstardom in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It tackles her often contentious relationship with her family head-on, as well as her tabloid catnip romance with then-*NSYNC superstar Justin Timberlake and the public mental health struggles that led a 13-year stint in a tightly controlled conservatorship she fought for years. The book was a bestseller and the Williams-read audiobook became the fastest-selling in publisher Simon & Schuster\u2019s history.<\/p>\n \n\tMeriwether said she\u2019s also been listening to Spears\u2019 music \u201ca lot,\u201d as well as the other music that was released during the years Spears was making albums; since getting out of the restrictive 13-year conservatorship in Nov. 2021, Spears has vowed not to return to the music business and has not released any new songs since her July 2023 one-off with Will.i.am \u201cMind Your Business.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI want to just get the feeling that moment in time or just remind myself,\u201d said Meriwether of her musical deep-dive. \u201cI\u2019m exactly Britney\u2019s age, so a lot of that music just takes me, like, immediately back.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAnd, in a detail that should make Spears\u2019 legion of fans happy, Meriwether has also been doing a serious excavation into Brit\u2019s catalog to get into the mood. While making playlists of her favorites, she couldn\u2019t point to a single song, but nodded to two deep tracks from late-period Britney as her current go-tos. She\u2019s said she\u2019s been loving the emotionally turbulent love triangle tale \u201cPerfume\u201d (from 2013\u2019s Britney Jean<\/em>), as well as the fan-favorite electropop banger \u201cIf I\u2019m Dancing,\u201d which appeared on the singer\u2019s most recent, and possibly final album, 2016\u2019s Glory<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cShe\u2019s made a lot of albums,\u201d Meriwether said. \u201cHer hits have been such big hits that I think there are a lot of songs that people don\u2019t think of.\u201d<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/liz-meriwether-listening-britney-spears-a-lot-writing-biopic-1236323719\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/945559094-e1774641565114.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard New Girl and Furious screenwriter Liz Meriwether has been doing all the things one does when preparing for a biopic on one of the world\u2019s most famous pop icons. 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