Writer Liz Meriwether Has Been Listening to Britney Spears ‘A Lot’ While Writing Script For ‘The Woman in Me’ Biopic

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’s most famous pop icons.

She’s listening to the Michelle Williams-read audiobook of Britney Spears ‘ 2023 The Woman in Me memoir, and, in news that should warm the hearts of the Britney Army, she is seemingly doing a deep dive into Brit’s music, at least as evidenced by which tracks she told The Hollywood Reporter are her current favorites from the singer’s nine-LP catalog.

Meriwether 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 films, director Jon M.

Chu and producer Marc Platt; Universal has not yet confirmed any details about the adaptation.

Meriwether told THR that it’s still early in the process, but she’s spoken to Chu and Platt “so much” already and found them to be very collaborative.

“I’m so used to being the final word on everything,” she said of her frequent dual roles in the past as writer and showrunner.

“But it feels really relaxing at the moment because I’m writing something and I don’t have to be the one to figure this out … I get to just be a writer and that’s fun.” She noted that she’s both read the hard copy and listened to The Woman in Me audiobook “multiple times,” praising her former Dying For Sex collaborator Michelle Williams for just crushing the audiobook read.

“Michelle is unbelievable.

It’s like a monologue.

I told her that her performance of the audiobook broke my heart in so many ways,” she said.

“She’s being true to Britney and also telling a story in the way she’s reading it.

Another spoiler: Michelle’s a really good actor.

Maybe I’ll turn a script in to Mark and Jon that’s just Michelle on a stage, reading.

I wonder what will happen.” Spears’ plainspoken memoir traces her career from her humble beginnings in Louisiana to her rise to pop superstardom in the late 1990s and early 2000s.