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A second Britney Spears documentary in the works, this time on Netflix
Another non-fiction film about Britney Spears hoping to compete with the popular Hulu documentary “Framing Britney Spears”, as Netflix is working on its own project about the pop star. According to Bloomberg director filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, her own non-fiction film about Spears for Netflix – a project that began before the debut of ‘Framing Britney Spears’ earlier this month. Carr is known for directing the Netflix miniseries “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” and the HBO documentary “At the Heart of Gold” about the scandal surrounding Dr. Larry Nassar and the American Olympic team. No other details were available about the specific focus of Netflix’s project, which according to Bloomberg is not complete and does not have an air date. Netflix and Carr representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Also read: Britney Spears’ father denies bid for sole control of Singer’s Investments’ Framing Britney Spears’, which originates from The New York Times and FX, focused on the pop star’s conservatory controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, as well as the ‘Free Britney’ movement around her court battle. But the documentary also shines through as the media obsessed for years about Spears and the often misogynistic narratives in the reporting that followed her. Attention to the documentary even led to Justin Timberlake, who once dated Spears, apologizing to both her and Janet Jackson for how he ‘benefited from a system that endorsed misogyny and racism’. This would not be the first time that Netflix and Hulu are waging war over vibrant documentaries. Both streamers released documentaries about the Fyre Festival within days, ‘Fyre’ and ‘Fyre Fraud’, both of which went horribly wrong from 2019 onwards over the 2017 music festival. The filmmakers even got into an argument over the two documentaries, with one of the filmmakers accusing the other of paying Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland $ 250,000 to insure him for an interview. And of course, there is currently a golden rush over various documentary and narrative projects centered around GameStop and how a group of Reddit traders on r / WallStreetBets made headlines about the stock market earlier this year. Read the original story A Second Britney Spears Documentary in the Works, This Time on Netflix by TheWrap