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Not long after the release of Hulu‘s Britney Spears documentary, Netflix is working on their own project about the pop icon, Bloomberg reports. The upcoming film, which comes from director Erin Lee Carr, does not yet have a release date, but was reportedly in the works before The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears premiered earlier this month.
While little else is known about Netflix’s Spears doc, it won’t be the first collaboration between Carr and the streamer. She has previously worked with Netflix on the miniseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal, which premiered last spring. Carr is also known for true crime docs like HBO’s I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, and the Gypsy Rose Blanchard film Mommy, Dead and Dearest.
Since it first premiered on Hulu Feb. 5, Framing Britney Spears has inspired both old and new fans of the singer to rally around her and call for Spears’ release from her conservatorship, which she’s been under since 2008. The hit documentary focuses on Spears’ rise to fame in the late ’90s and the relentless media coverage of the young star, which only worsened as she openly struggled with her mental health between 2007 and 2008. Since then, her father, Jamie Spears, imposed a conservatorship in which he oversees her finances and everyday decisions.
Framing Britney Spears explores how Spears got into the conservatorship, what it means for her, and why her fans have been fighting to end it with the Free Britney movement. While Spears’ conservatorship case returned to court recently, her father remains in his role as co-conservator. Since the doc’s release, Spears’ ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake issued an apology for how he treated her after they broke up, and also apologized to Janet Jackson.
Hulu and Netflix previously released dueling documentaries about the doomed Fyre Festival, a catastrophic music festival that promised much more than it delivered to customers. Hulu released Fyre Fraud on Jan. 14, 2019, just days before Netflix released their own film Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, on Jan. 18, 2019.
