"Blonde Ambition": Biopic Script About Madonna

• 04.25.2017, 13:05
•  No-politics

Associated press

Elyse Hollander’s Madonna biopic script Blonde Ambition, the No. 1 screenplay on 2016’s The Black List, has been optioned by Universal Pictures, the Deadline reports.

RatPac Entertainment, Michael De Luca Productions and Bellvue Productions are producing.The script is set in 1980s New York, where Madonna struggles to get her first album released while navigating fame, romance and a music industry that views women as disposable. Interesting, while an agent at CAA, Ron Meyer (now vice chairman of NBC/Universal) used to rep the singer. The title of the film comes from a tour launched in 1990 by the singer who was in her glory with No. 1 hits such as Like A Prayer, Express Yourself and Vogue.

In 1991, the documentary Truth or Dare documented the tour.Producers on Blonde Ambition are Universal-based De Luca, Brett Ratner and John Zaozirny of Bellvue Productions.