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A second Britney Spears documentary in progress, this time on Netflix
Another nonfiction film about Britney Spears hoping to compete with the popular Hulu documentary “Framing Britney Spears”, while Netflix is working on its own project about the pop star. According to Bloomberg, filmmaker Erin Lee Carr is directing his own nonfiction film about Spears for Netflix – a project that started before the debut of “Framing Britney Spears” earlier this month. Carr is known for directing the Netflix miniseries “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” and the HBO documentary “At the Heart of Gold” about the scandal involving physician Larry Nassar and the United States Olympic gymnast team. No other details have been made available about the specific focus of the Netflix project, which Bloomberg said has not been completed and has no broadcast date. Netflix and Carr representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Read also: Britney Spears’ father denied exclusive control of the investment of the singer “Framing Britney Spears”, which comes from The New York Times and FX, focused on the tutelage of the pop star controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, as well as the “Free Britney” movement around her legal battle. But the documentary also shows how the media became obsessed with Spears for years and the often misogynistic narratives in the coverage that followed her. Attention to the documentary led Justin Timberlake, who has already dated Spears, apologizing to her and Janet Jackson for “benefiting from a system that tolerates misogyny and racism.” This would not be the first time that Netflix and Hulu have gone to war over agitated documentaries. streamers released documentaries about the Fyre Festival a few days apart, “Fyre” and “Fyre Fraud”, both from 2019 about the 2017 music festival that went terribly wrong. Filmmakers got into a war of words because of the two documentaries, with one of the filmmakers accusing the others of paying $ 250,000 to Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland to secure an interview with him. And, of course, there is a gold rush at the moment regarding several documentaries and narrative projects, all centered on GameStop and how a group of Reddit traders on r / WallStreetBets made waves in the stock market earlier this year. Read the original story A second Britney Spears documentary in progress, this time on Netflix on TheWrap