Britney Spears Documentary within the Works at Netflix

Another nonfiction movie about Britney Spears hoping to compete with the favored Hulu documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” as Netflix is working by itself challenge concerning the pop star.

According to Bloomberg, filmmaker Erin Lee Carr is directing her personal nonfiction movie about Spears for Netflix — a challenge that started previous to the debut of “Framing Britney Spears” earlier this month.

Carr is thought for beforehand directing the Netflix miniseries “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” and the HBO documentary “At the Heart of Gold” concerning the scandal surrounding doctor Larry Nassar and the U.S. Olympic gymnast group.

No different particulars have been obtainable concerning the particular focus of Netflix’s challenge, which Bloomberg mentioned has not been accomplished and doesn’t have an air date. Netflix had no remark. Representatives for Carr didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

“Framing Britney Spears,” which comes from The New York Times and FX, centered on the pop star’s conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears, in addition to the “Free Britney” motion surrounding her court docket battle. But the documentary additionally shines a lightweight on how the media obsessed over Britney Spears for years and the customarily misogynistic narratives within the protection that adopted her. Attention concerning the documentary even led to Justin Timberlake, who as soon as dated Spears, to situation an apology to each her and Janet Jackson for a way he “benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism.”

This wouldn’t be the primary time that Netflix and Hulu have gone to conflict over buzzy documentaries. Both streamers launched documentary movies concerning the Fyre Festival inside days of one another, “Fyre” and “Fyre Fraud,” each from 2019 concerning the 2017 music pageant gone horribly unsuitable. The filmmakers even obtained in a confrontation over the 2 documentaries, with one of many filmmakers accusing the others of paying Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland $250,000 to safe him for an interview.

And in fact there’s a gold rush in the mean time over a number of documentaries and narrative initiatives all centered round GameStop and the way a bunch of Reddit merchants on r/WallStreetBets made waves on the inventory market earlier this yr.