The on-again, off-again Madonna biopic might be getting a ninth life in the upcoming season of Apple TV’s award-winning Hollywood send-up The Studio. The show that lives to tweak the foibles and insecurities of the 90210 crowd has landed a coup in casting Madonna in her first acting role in 23 years, and from the sounds of it her story arc is perfectly in line with creator/star Seth Rogen’s dedication to popping the movie business’s ego balloon.
According to Variety, Madonna will appear in two episodes of season two in a storyline that alludes to the troubled attempts to bring the story of her life to the big screen. The singer was recently photographed in Venice along with actress Julia Garner — who was slated to play her in the scrapped biopic — recreating the music video for the pop star’s 1984 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Like a Virgin.”
Madonna has not appeared on TV since a cameo on Will & Grace in 2003 and has not starred in a movie since 2002’s panned Swept Away remake, but Variety said a source described her narrative on the series as a kind of roman à clef centered on the biopic.
While the current status of the real-life Madonna movie is unclear, the project got its start in 2021 when Universal Pictures secured the rights to tell the singer’s story, with Madonna booked to cowrite and direct the film. After a number of A-list actresses reportedly auditioned for the title role, Ozark star Julia Garner came out on top and was slated to take on the task of telling Madonna’s story from her early days as a dancer in Michigan through her rise to stardom in New York in the 1980s, peaking with her 1998 Ray of Light album release.
But, after a number of reported script rewrites, the project was put on ice in 2023. At present, Netflix is working on an autobiographical series about the star that is not expected to feature Garner.
It appears that Garner may get the last laugh, though, as those recent pics from Venice of her in a gondola with Madonna suggest that The Studio‘s revival of the scrapped project will bring the two women together. Variety reported that Rogen’s fictional Continental Studios will act as the producer of the Madonna movie, which the star and his team of often bumbling vipers — Kathryn Hahn, Bryan Cranston, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders — take to the Venice Film Festival, where Madonna and Garner show up to try and gin up some Oscar buzz.
At press time a spokesperson for Madonna had no comment on her role in The Studio or Variety‘s reporting, which included a source saying that Madonna will not play the director of the fictional biopic; a spokesperson for Apple TV had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment at press time. Donald Glover, who was recently photographed on set in Venice with Garner and Madonna, is also reportedly slated to appear in the upcoming season in an unspecified role.
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