I’d love a Madonna film or series but please nothing directed or written by her.
I’d love a Madonna film or series but please nothing directed or written by her.
Film or series I just want it to showcase her music and snatch those #1s again with a soundtrack and/or streams.
Now, when you put it like that...
Yesss. I’d want a prestigious limited series that can generate water cooler moments and weekly discourse, a movie doesn’t hit the same. You could easily spread the 80s and 90s across their own seasons.
I would love a series. I think many people have moved away from cinematic biographies and towards docuseries and television series biographies (just my opinion). There's something exciting and enjoyable about having watch parties with friends or watch parties on Twitter, and people reacting as a series unfolds. I remember watching the Janet documentary and it was fun responding on Twitter and other social media forums. People seemed to bond and basked in the nostalgia and learning new details about the making of her records. Same with the TV show, Pose. It was one of the first series I watched where the social media component was a huge part of why I loved watching the show (although the quality of the show stood on its own).
She needs a memoir.
This is the worst kind of journalism where they casually alternate between factual information and... torture satire? This sentence is so gross
Maybe she was the only one who didn’t end the process by curling up into the foetal position and involuntarily urinating whenever she heard the opening bars of Like a Prayer.
I would love her story being told in Series but not sure about being a “multi-season” affair thing. We know it’s lengthy and deserves the right spotlight, but spreading and stretching it across many episodes can make the whole thing too diluted and way too much room. I know we are fascinated and want to know everything but I don’t need her to dramatize the recording of Shoo-Be-Doo ddd.
~10 episodes, 2 by decade, and then 2 “transitional pieces”. More than enough. Being ~60minutes would mean a full-length movie by each episode already.
~10 episodes, 2 by decade, and then 2 “transitional pieces”. More than enough. Being ~60minutes would mean a full-length movie by each episode already.
Speak for yourself!
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Yeah, this was my thinking as well. Also I feel like every show is getting cancelled these days, so a mini series would at least guarantee we get to see the full story instead of it getting cancelled after two seasons before we even get to the late 90s.
I haven't said this in the Celebration Tour thread but...
Please sing Shoo-Be-Doo.
Thw way that terrible Whitney movie rushed through her life without leaving room for thoughts or anything really proved how hard it is to tell such a story in a short amount of time. It was like seeing someone work through a checklist of moments.
I am also curious what the ongoing theme would be. I am not sure if a fully realized documentary series wouldn’t be more satisfying then trying to novelize her life. If it wouldn’t be just for specific parts that are working within themselves.
Also I Wonder if the interest would be different compared to most biopics. Her life is a fight against instances but it’s still going on. She doesn’t have a strong tragic angle that makes for a big end. What would be the end of the movie anyway? I have a hard time imagining that. She’s is active. There is not big final performance, no bittersweet end. Also not a biographical moment that huge like Celine‘s husband dying, thinking of that weird Aline movie - one of the few examples of a movie being made about someone alive.
Don’t get me wrong I am not saying her life doesn’t have the stories to tell, the opposite is the case. But you don’t have that big ending point that put the life stories of other artists into a different light. A biopic about Madonna feels not completely right while she is alive and swinging and still has fights to fight. A series would work way better in that way.
I am also curious what the ongoing theme would be. I am not sure if a fully realized documentary series wouldn’t be more satisfying then trying to novelize her life. If it wouldn’t be just for specific parts that are working within themselves.
Also I Wonder if the interest would be different compared to most biopics. Her life is a fight against instances but it’s still going on. She doesn’t have a strong tragic angle that makes for a big end. What would be the end of the movie anyway? I have a hard time imagining that. She’s is active. There is not big final performance, no bittersweet end. Also not a biographical moment that huge like Celine‘s husband dying, thinking of that weird Aline movie - one of the few examples of a movie being made about someone alive.
Don’t get me wrong I am not saying her life doesn’t have the stories to tell, the opposite is the case. But you don’t have that big ending point that put the life stories of other artists into a different light. A biopic about Madonna feels not completely right while she is alive and swinging and still has fights to fight. A series would work way better in that way.
I wonder if her version ended with Stella and Estere joining the family and 'Finally, enough love'.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KZJ5o-jMuPw
Well, I know she likes to taste new demographic markets, but this "thing" should not affect new music, please. Something for the TT generation is just something for the TT generation, new music is something else.
Btw, it's out in 2 weeks
Well, I know she likes to taste new demographic markets, but this "thing" should not affect new music, please. Something for the TT generation is just something for the TT generation, new music is something else.
Btw, it's out in 2 weeks
It's... literally a remix? Relax.
By the way, Madonna didn't end up with a 40 year career by continuously operating as an 80s artist with an 80s audience. It would do a lot of her fanbase well to realise that she is adapting to the current musical climate, and I personally don't see anything wrong with it.
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At the end of the day Mother gets credited and paid, and a new generation finds out about Sorry. I don't see a downside!
I pictured whatever movie/serie/audiovisual project ending with her like getting ready to go on Stage and the public roaring while the image fades in a very “and I’m still here, bitches” and got goosebumps tbh ddd. Something like the Sticky & Sweet opening but from Backstage view. It’s very “in your face” but at this point she deserves to just shove it. She’s still here, she’s still selling out shows and she’s still Madonna, thank God.
Need to listen to this Sorry thing.
Need to listen to this Sorry thing.