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Madonna’s Canceled Universal Movie About Herself Going to Netflix as a Series — As She Predicted Last Year

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The Material Matron is going to Netflix after all.

Madonna presaged the announcement last November, which everyone seems to have forgotten.

In November 2024, after Universal Pictures canceled her biopic, she raised the idea of a mini series with her fans.

Here’s what I wrote.

Sure enough, today it was announced that Madonna’s life story would go to Netflix as a miniseries.

No surprise!

Perhaps Julia Garner will play Madonna all the way through, or just for the first couple of episodes, or last.

In any case, to tell the saga of Madonna you need episodes. One movie can’t contain everything she’s been through and done!

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As I wrote last year, this will be Madonna in “The Crown.” And on Netflix, the Sex book and all the rest of her mild X rated material will find a happy home.

Who will play Sean Penn? Warren Beatty? Jenny Shimizu? Ingrid Casares? It’s going to be a wild casting call.

Viva Madonna! PS This is probably why she went to the Met Gala looking so unhappy. She hadn’t been out and about in a while.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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