Liz Meriwether Adapting Britney Spears Biopic ‘The Woman In Me’ At Universal For Jon M. Chu

Four-time Emmy nominee Liz Meriwether is set to pen the screenplay based on Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me which Wicked producer Marc Platt is producing and director Jon M. Chu is helming at Universal. The studio took rights to the novel with Platt and Chu back in August 2024.

Merimether is penning the first draft of the story about the rise, and fall, and rise again of the McComb, Mississippi native who would become a multi-platinum selling pop artist behind such hits as “…Baby One More Time,” “Toxic” and “Ooops…I Did It Again!”

The Woman in Me was the fastest-selling memoir in Simon & Schuster history, with more than 6M copies sold worldwide. Spears originally signed a $15M book deal back in 2022. Her myriad career benchmarks counts a Grammy Award, close to 150 million records worldwide with 70M albums, singles and songs sold stateside alone per Nielsen Music.

Meriwether created Fox hit series New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simon. She also co-created FX’s limited series Dying for Sex, which received 2025 Emmy noms for Limited series and writing. Meriwether also created Hulu limited series The Dropout which was nominated for 2022 Outstanding Limited/Anthology series as well as its respective writing category.

Universal had no comment when reached on Meriwether boarding The Woman in Me.