Britney Spears
Photographer: Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty Images
Photographer: Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty Images
In the last case of duel documentaries, Netflix Inc. is planning its own Britney Spears movie, in the wake of a recently released by Hulu.
Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, specializing in real police documentaries, is directing the project on the troubled pop star, a celebrated cause among fans who believe she is being held against her will.
The previous project, “Framing Britney Spears”, was produced by the New York Times and released on Hulu this month, quickly becoming one of the most talked about documentaries of the year. The film Hulu chronicles the media’s misogynistic approach to Spears throughout his career and explores a tutelage that puts much of his life under his father’s control. The documentary also prompted Spears’ ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake to apologize for his treatment of women.
This will be at least the second time in recent years that Netflix and Hulu have made competing documentaries on the same story. Both services released films about the Fyre Festival, which was marketed as a luxury music festival in the Bahamas, but ended up being a disaster.
It is not uncommon for movie studios to work on the same projects at the same time, but competing documentaries have become much more common in the streaming era. Services are relying on films as attractive, low-cost programs, and everyone is hungry for new programming.
Carr’s project is not completed and has no release date yet. It was already underway before “Framing Britney Spears” debuted.