Lifetime Plans Britney Spears Biopic

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime has ordered the two-hour biopic Britney (working title), detailing the story of pop icon Britney Spears.

Produced by Asylum Entertainment, the project charts Spears’s rise to fame, fall from grace and return to the spotlight. Production begins this September in Vancouver for a 2017 premiere on Lifetime.

Steve Michaels, Jonathan Koch and Joan Harrison are executive producers. Leslie Libman (Manson’s Lost Girls) directs from a script by Anne-Marie Hess.