Madonna to Work With Shawn Levy on Biopic Series for Netflix: Report

The Queen of Pop might be getting her own TV series. Music icon Madonna is working with Shawn Levy to develop a limited series at Netflix, according to a new report by Deadline.

Levy and Madonna have been talking about working together for some time, according to the report, and the series is unrelated to a paused film biopic that was being developed at Universal with Julia Garner in the lead role. (That film was put on an indefinite hold ahead of her massive Celebration tour.)

Shawn Levy is the creative behind Stranger Things and The Perfect Couple, along with being a producer on Deadpool & Wolverine. His company 21 Laps has an exclusive TV deal at Netflix.

Reps for Netflix did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment. Madonna’s rep declined to comment.

“I have a very long script that is really hard for me to make shorter. I’ve been whittling away at it, but it’s like hacking off my limbs,” Madonna told Variety in 2022 about the film. “I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an extraordinary film. It was also a preemptive strike because a lot of people were trying to make movies about me. Mostly misogynistic men. So I put my foot in the door and said, ‘No one’s going to tell my story but me.’”

It’s unclear what period of Madonna’s career the television series will focus on, although Garner is “still being engaged” on the new project. Madonna has previously hinted at the biopic being turned into a TV series.

“After struggling for days in LA, listening to producers and agents tell me why I couldn’t make my film —I (been working on it for 4 years!!!),” she said in a now-deleted post from November. “I realized that everything in my life is going to be challenged.”

She added at the time: “I did not have a normal life. I cannot make this in the normal way … We cannot shrink and make ourselves smaller. If you want something badly enough in life — the whole universe will conspire to [help] you get it.”