Julia Garner has been "offered" the role of Madonna in her upcoming biopic

She doesn’t have Madonna’s edgy looks.

There isn’t very much that’s terribly interesting about Madonna’s life story, actually.

The most dramatic thing about her is her work ethic.

Hopefully the fan base, (the ones who think they know Madonna personally and what's best for her) don't send this girl running in the opposite direction.

They can be completely unbearable, kind of like the screaming banshees on this site, calling everyone trolls for having their own opinions.

Frigid, ancient, battered queens are no fun.

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She should RUN from this. She's the hottest actress in town right now. Madonna is too toxic.

(That said, I think she'd kill it!)

[quote]There isn’t very much that’s terribly interesting about Madonna’s life story, actually.

I think there's enough to fill about 75 minutes of narrative exposition spliced with multiple musical numbers and an 80s fashion montage or 12. That's not even counting the shit she made up. At least 5-10 minutes will be spent on a child actor as the young Madonna watching her mother die while wearing a communion dress.

This has the potential for camp classic.

[quote] I can't with these laughable press releases.

You can't WHAT?

Don’t do it!

[quote] She doesn’t have Madonna’s edgy looks.

But unlike Madonna, Julia can actually act.

It won't be a truthful documentary if Madonna has anything to do with it.

^I didn't mean documentary but I said documentary because I'm watching one.

Accepting this part is just as likely to destroy her career as it is to make it. She’s already done some great work and is well on her way to Oscar gold. Madonna is a frightful actress, but she’s an even worse director - W/E anyone? Not to mention, she lacks any ability to be objective and could very well torpedo what might otherwise be an interesting biopic. If I were Julia and/or her agents I would think long and hard about whether or not accepting this is the right call. Hopefully they’ve seen the entire script and not just a few sides.

[quote] There isn’t very much that’s terribly interesting about Madonna’s life story, actually.

Don't forget the scenes of Madonna in the back of her limo trolling Spanish Harlem for dick every day in the late 1980s. that'll be interesting.

[quote] Don't forget the scenes of Madonna in the back of her limo trolling Spanish Harlem for dick every day in the late 1980s.

That's the first thing I think of when I think of Madonna's life story-- and I'm a straight woman!

R14 That was debunked a LONG time ago.

I don’t trust current Madonna. Something is going on mental health wise. She isn’t the same person she was. That being said, the movie company is very happy with the script and Madonna does have skills directing. That chick that played Wallis was considered an Oscar favorite for W/E.

CBGB early 1980s. I witnessed the making of Madonna. She really wanted to be the up front singing and performing one night and was repeatedly told no. The argument got pretty heated and I'm not sure who he was, but the guy screamed at her "the music business is a man's world. A woman will never dominate the business". I saw it in her eyes, Madonna was born that night and showed them all.

R15 W/E received something like a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. Madonna’s direction was eviscerated (shaky shots, disastrous use of music, etc) and there was never Oscar buzz for any of it - other than maybe the costumes, which Madonna had nothing to do with.

[quote] [R14] That was debunked a LONG time ago.

So what? That's what we want to see!

Already tired of this actress.

No one will top this performance.

From that bio of Madonna:

Songwriter Andy Paley, who has worked extensively with Paul Simon and Brian Wilson, went to her Los Angeles home on numerous occasions while they were working on the soundtrack for Dick Tracy, the 1990 film directed by her lover, Warren Beatty. For four hours at a stretch she would focus entirely on the creative process, waving away her secretary and others. 'She puts the blinkers on when she is working,' he says. 'All outside distractions are forgotten. We sat at the pianoand she would tap out the rhythm. She wants to feel that she can dance to any song she records. That's her test.' Paley and other writers, including her first producer Mark Kamins, reckon that Madonna is one of the best in the business, a much underrated musician and lyricist. 'She is the easiest person I know to write songs with,' Paley says. 'She has a very clear vision, the most direct person you will ever work with.

Andy Paley, who has worked with two of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time says Madonna is among the best songwriters in the business. This is supported by the others she has worked with who say the same thing.

R17 STFU. The reviews also said she had some serious potential if she’d lose the gimmicks when directing.

Unfortunately she has passed away R20.

R23 I know…very sad. She was excellent in that movie.

R20 OMG she did die. How? I see no cause of death. Very sad. That was a really good insight into early Madonna. At times she looked just like her.

Damn, just 26!

The only thing I've seen about her cause of death R25 was complications from an eating disorder. Not sure if that's true or not, but the only thing I've seen as the cause of her death.

W/E was fine and panned because it was Madonna. If Tom Ford had done it exactly the same it would have been praised. That said, Madonna should not direct this film unless she’s willing to go really gritty with it. She won’t.

Do we think this is actually getting made? So many biopics announce casting and then disappear into thin air.

I love Julia!

This is a huge huge role and I think they’ve made a massive mistake by choosing this veryugly woman. Is she even talented? 🙄🙄

Is this bizarro world? No one cares. I would be more likely to see her as Barbra directed by Barbra. Who’s paying for this shitshow?

Gosh whoever this turd is, she’s too damn ugly. Madonna at her age looked million times better

I hope Jason Bateman talks Julia out of doing this, she trusts his taste from their time working together on Ozark.

Julia garners husband was my crush this bitch stays winning

I think with hair and makeup it could work. But that face and her eyes.. just captivating.

For fucks sake she’s gross looking.

The actress who played Madonna in the bio pic “The Breakfast Club” was perfect. She nailed it and really got her look and nuances down.

Playing the director’s literal stand-in in their own film is something I’d encourage any honest actor to avoid. They don’t have the objectivity to help craft a balanced portrayal.

Why doesn’t Madonna play herself?

R37 And then she died.

[quote]R21 Andy Paley, who has worked with two of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time says Madonna is among the best songwriters in the business. This is supported by the others she has worked with who say the same thing.

And that sounds like the makings of a really boring movie.

What’s wrong with just rebroadcasting the TV movie MADONNA: INNOCENCE LOST, starring Terumi Matthews?

The only person who could play Madonna accurately is Caitlyn Jenner.

I shall play Madonna and truth will be my performance's hallmark.

Julia is a super talent. I'd watch that one.

She's took waspy looking. But she doesn't not look like enough to be a distraction.

Wait pls tell me Madonna is not directing this.

My team is leaking this “exclusive” to throw off the media so as not to steal my thunder. I will signing on to play Madonna at the end of the week! We will have a huge press conference at Bill’s Bait and Bikini Shop next Monday!

Much better choice than this Barbie Fer-whatever who also being "considered" to play Madonna.

I'm sure it was just to appease the screaming Tumblr retards, now WOKE SJWs who would cried bloody murder if only skinny blonde women were being considered to play a skinny blonde woman.

Interesting casting. Who's the director again?

Mark my words, Madonna will destroy this movie with her ego and narcissism. As others have said, she will not go gritty, she will rewrite history, she will paint herself as a feminist martyr instead of the fame-addicted attention seeker she was/is. Everything will be about how she is a woman in a man's world and I guarantee the line "Would it sound better if I were a man?" is in the script.

But Madonna's ego and antics will prevent this film from being finished. She'll cry she is being censored and not supported and wah wah wah.

Julia should focus on other projects which will help her thriving career; this film won't.

I'm still disappointed they didn't go with Sky Ferreira

R48 it was Alexa Demie. Barbie Ferreira is her castmate on Euphoria

the acting in the movie is what I prefer so she’ll definitely work in my book. She’s a talented actress. I can not stomach a film with bad acting, especially a biopic.(cough cough lifetime).

R51 1000%

This film will either be brilliant or an epic failure. Madonna seems to NOW to have a biopic. Though she hasn't had a hit in a while, she just still feels too current. I love Madge so I hope this film is a success. Elton John doesn't feel current so that was partially why his film was a success. Most of the good music biopic the stars are dead.

I hope Madge has one more massive hit before she retires into old old age. Just to shit on the haters on DL. She's not a great actress but she is brilliant pop stars. There would be no Queen Bey. No Rihanna, no gaga if not for Madge.

Madonna has never succeeded at anything outside of music and this movie will be an epic failure. I hope that Julia has the good sense to stay far away from this disaster flick.

Can’t wait to hear what accent she gives her Madonna characterisation.

Why isn't Madonna playing herself? She would be great!

I get what you’re saying r55 i agree. I think her biopic can work. I do hope she doesn’t have too much of a hand in the process because I feel like those biopics have a tendency to be terrible. We want to see struggles, drama. Biopics are better when people die.

[quote] I do hope she doesn’t have too much of a hand in the process

She's directing the film and collaborating on the screenplay.

So, her hands are all over it.

Ick.

I don't know why DL hates Madge. She's not pretentious. She was doing all this shit before it was cool to do so. When she came out with Vogue and embraced gay rights, most pop females were doing love ballads or Sinead O'Connor. Alternative as fuck; I was only 2 yrs old but I know my music history. Plus she actually has bangers, she's not a natural gifted 4 octave vocalist but she's solid.

Julia Garner is much prettier than Madonna.

[quote]That chick that played Wallis was considered an Oscar favorite for W/E

Andrea Riseborough. Madonna basically tanked her career and she’s been climbing out of that hole for a decade.

RUN, JULIA, RUN!!

Someone on here posted the big titty chick from Euphoria should do it. I was hoping it was her. I love titties and because I had just discovered Euphoria I wanted it to be her.

Sydney sweeny looks nothing like Madonna that would be tough

What studio is producing this? I can’t imagine any studio,that would let Madonna direct this.

If she’s director it’s a no for me. And Julia should decline while her career is gaining momentum. Madonna is too delusional to direct even though it’s her life.

R63 Yeah she's really not

I'm not just an actress but also a singer. Just saying.

R55, I think most DLers love Madonna. Or respect her (I know I do, even though I've never been a big fan minus a few songs.) But I'd love her to have another big hit!

[quote]This has the potential for camp classic.

Well, if Garner wasn't tripping over herself before, she is now.

[quote] Madonna seems to NOW to have a biopic. Though she hasn't had a hit in a while, she just still feels too current.

My sides! Madonna hasn't been "now" or "current" since Ray of Light. She was hanging on a thread with Music and Confessions. And the era people want to see are the early 80s to her peak in the early 90s.

Madonna is such a sociopath. This will be full of mythomania. False narrative. Like, for example, arriving in Times Square in NYC not knowing anyone. Her fucking brother lived in NYC. But just the idea that she'll present a version of her story totally devoid of her shadowy side is gross. Is this seriously going to play like midwest innocent makes it in music? Should be sociopathic whore (with absolutely no regrets or guilt about any of her skank behavior). fucks her mediocre ass to fame through cheap shock tactics and brilliant men and women she used.

I agree with whoever said above that when push comes to shove Madonna’s story just isn’t that interesting. It’s a story of a grinding work ethic and grinding ambition. Boring. It would only be an interesting movie if it was rawly honest about how cold and cruel Madonna can be and that will never happen—it goes without saying— if she’s in charge of it. Truth or Dare was Madonna’s biopic so it’s already been done, really.

It should be about her arrival in NYC to the release of Like A Prayer. Then the sequel can deal with the 90s.

R55 How could it possibly be “brilliant?” The only way that could ever happen is if it focused on a dark theme…fame at all costs. Sweet Smell of Success, etc.

But she is creating it and directing it and you know it’s just going to be a bloated biopic chronicling all her career highs and recreating her costumes and hair, as well as the looks of the era.

We’ll get her her childhood/ mom dying origins story, then travel to the late 70s and early 80s in NYC, then her breaking through and probably ending with Blonde Ambition.

Don’t forget about her rape.

Why doesn’t she use Lourdes in it? Has she no faith in her own daughter?

Does anyone actually think Julia looks like Madonna?

I don't see it at all!

They should have got an Italian girl...

[quote]Why doesn’t Madonna play herself?

Thank you for taking note of my preternaturally youthful looks.

I pray for this to be Mommy Dearest camp gold.

Sydney Sweeney would be a better fit.

I’m sure Julia is talented but she’s kinda too ugly to play Madonna

[R85]. Uh- Have you see recent unfiltered pics of Madonna ? Julia is a raving beauty compared to that Baby Jane looking freakshow!!!!

I think Julia Garner would do a great job in the Madonna movie if it were a true story and not just propaganda from Madonna.

84 no she would not. Don’t Sydney sweet us to death

Sydney Sweeney I’d like the new Margot robbie

Get Julie Brown to play trainwreck Madonna post 2005.

I don’t understand the Julia is ugly comments. She’s really quite stunning. And with makeup, she’d probably be a dead ringer for Madonna.

But she’s too good of an actor to waste on a Madonna bio!! No matter how good she is in it, she’s gonna get a razzie nomination. Hopefully two weeks into shooting, there are some “creative differences” or a faked injury and she leaves the project.

#Justice4Lourdes!

There will not be a sequel. It should cover her childhood briefly, then segue to her moving to New York. It should cover her marriage and divorce with Sean Penn. I'm not sure where or how it should end, but keeping it confined to the 80s would help define the style of the film while streamlining the narrative. We don't need to see 90s Madonna; the Sex book, Evita, Ray of Light -- these won't be interested on film, and they'd probably derail the film, which would be quite bloated if it included an entire second decade.

The 80s were her heyday, especially in retrospect. She helped define the era, and it largely defined her, too. It's a very popular decade with nostalgia buffs and it offers an instantly recognizable aesthetic that will play well to modern audiences of all ages.

Who plays elderly Madonna?

I like Madonna a lot. She’s been one of the best stars of all time. Love her voice and her songwriting. Everything.

Sadly, the Madonna right now has a huge chance to fuck this up. The only hope I have is the studio seems happy with the script and decisions behind the scenes.

Julia is a bit of a surprising pick, and it seems Madonna really likes her, but Julia has that spark, that edge. F Pugh does as well. I don’t know how she will do this with the person she is playing directing. Fuck.

R91, what makes her pretty? Just wondering

[quote]R95 Julia is a bit of a surprising pick, and it seems Madonna really likes her, but Julia has that spark, that edge.

Unless she’s a closet Madonna megafan, I beg dear Julia Garner to keep well out of this tacky mess. She’s very respected as an actress, and a stupid bio pic about a pop star who did nothing but top the charts would be a misstep.

Jesus Christ. Another round of her painting me out to be some evil villain. What a fucking boring, predictable cunt.

If this actress wants a long healthy life, and a good career she will stay away from playing Mads.

R85: shows how homely Madonna was even when young.

Garner is better looking than Madonna, when she wants to be. Her body is too slender to play what’s essentially a stripper, however.

The role is beneath her at this point, anyhow.

Yes, the role is beneath some Netflix actress to play the woman who became the most successful female solo artist of all time. Gotta love the Faux News mentality.

Early Madonna was sly and playful and likeable, something I don't think any of these actresses fully capture. I caught a video of comedian Taylor Tomlinson and thought, if she could act, she might make a good Madonna. She was those qualities. Her body and face could also pull it off, too.

But even if she could act, Madonna would never cast her. She's not well known and Madonna, in her current incarnation, is a clout chasing thirst bucket.

^^She HAS those qualities

Hi Taylor!

The insane Madonna bashing is off the charts. STFU troll. “The role is so beneath her and it is essentially a stripper role because Madonna has annihilated MY favorite diva and my fragile psyche cannot handle it. Madonna’s getting attention and my tears flow like raging rivers. I must MUST convince those at DL she is the worst WORST because I cannot enjoy life if Madonna, whose legacy MY favorite will never come close to, is getting attention and all of young HW wants to play her!!!!”

Julia is nowhere near as naturally beautiful as Madonna but with make up she can be. This is a role that will be very difficult. If Julia pulls this off, she will win an Oscar

But Madonna is a joke in the film industry, r106. And with movie audiences. Any film professional who gets onboard with her in any capacity (beside hiring her to sing a theme song) is committing career suicide.

Madonna was great once. She got through her overexposure from the early 90s (Blonde Ambition, Sex, Body of Evidence, Justify My Love) and managed to become cool during her Kaballah Ray of Light Tom Ford phase. Music (the single) was a fun blip towards the end of that period but then she really began trying to attach herself to younger/more relevant entertainers and she began to seem like a succubus / trying too hard.

But her absolute Achilles heel is her desperation for legitimate movie stardom. She is a TERRIBLE actress. From Who’s That Girl to Body of Evidence and especially The Next Best Thing and Swept Away she is just awful. She is an extremely self conscious actress who seems to think that a persona-such as she would adopt in a 3 minute video-is all acting is. She has been tolerable in supporting roles…but more in the sense of lowered expectations being met as opposed to anything approaching talent. Being desperate is not a good look. Now, with her behavior on social media, her narcissism is running rampant and she looks absolutely ridiculous.

Maybe the film opens with THIS - and our heroine’s life flashes before her eyes as she tumbles wildly down the stairs.

Fade to Detroit, 1963…

"She rose from nothing to superstardom, but not even the heights of the highest fame could protect her from the clutches of cults, alcohol, and plastic surgery: MADONNA. She had it all--except acting talent and common sense."

Julia's nose is completely different from Madonna's nose. I wonder how they are going to make it look different...?

She’s never doing it. So sorry not about Julia Garner’s nose.

This chick is a good actress she's not going to embarrass herself whatever it is and it will be exciting to see her the performance and racy shit.

R113 “racy” is the word madonna’s father used to describe her show in Truth or Dare.

[italic]To spread her wings,

She had to spread her legs.

[bold]“Madonna: New York Entry”[/bold][/italic]

coming soon

I’m surprised Amy Pascal is producing this. She must be bored and need some drama in her life.

[quote] “racy” is the word madonna’s father used to describe her show in Truth or Dare.

Neat was a much better description!

From Unknown. . .to Unstable: MADONNA!