Madonna Louise Ciconne has had one of the more eventful American lives of the past half-century, and it is little wonder that she might wish to depict it on screen in a big-budget film. After all, as the recent success of the Queen and Michael Jackson biopics have shown, it doesn’t matter how good the pictures are, as long as they include the best-known songs that made the artists household names and a smattering of the drama that led to their current eminence. Even if, as in Michael, it was the decision to omit most of the really interesting events that led to cries of whitewashing.
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Yet there’s been no Madonna biopic, and this is not because she has refused to cooperate. Far from it. Instead, the Material Girl’s main sticking point has been that she wished to write and direct an account of her own life, starring none other than Julia Garner as her younger self, and that it has been stymied by cowardice on the parts of studios who are unable to give her the huge budget and creative control that she has been asking for.
