Britney Book Spawns A-List Producer Frenzy
I've learned Margot Robbie, Shonda Rhimes and Brad Pitt are among those pursuing the option on her bestseller, while separate documentary rights could hit the mid-eight figures
With sales of her memoir The Woman in Me vaulting past 1.1 million in the U.S. alone in just its first week, reaching the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list, Britney Spears is currently in the midst of a feeding frenzy among the industry’s top studios, streamers and producers, many of whom are vying for the rights to her book. I’ve learned that Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Shonda Rhimes and Reese Witherspoon are but a few of the names currently gunning for the film and TV option through their respective production companies. But the battle for those rights has been quixotic and has resulted in…