Hollywood has always been big on the celebrity biopic, and that doesn't look like something that'll be changing soon - not with upcoming mega-hits such as 'One From The Bottom: The Carol Vorderman Story' or 'Peaches Geldof: My Struggle' all set to light up the silver screen.

Who else wants a piece of the autobiographical action? Britney Spears, that's who - and given that the last few years of her life have been about as tumultuous as an Alton Towers ride manned by attendants with chronic shakes, chances are that this is going to be one hell of a cinematic story.

 

Rumours are flying around that a British director is involved in the project, which - according to chitter-chatter - will be:

 

" … the film everyone will be queuing to see. It will be dark and gritty - charting Britney's devastating falls including her head-shaving ordeal and her traumatic custody battle for her two children. Let's just say, it will not be for the faint-hearted."

 

Britney is apparently chomping at the bit for the chance to take the lead role, and presumably bettering her thespian chances by employing a team of people to eliminate every single trace of 'Crossroads' having ever existed.

 

That 'British director' notion is quite a worrying one, however. Sure, we can all be thankful that Guy Ritchie will be too busy wrestling with Conan Doyle novels to get his hands on Britters, but that still leaves a number of less-than-favourable candidates open for the bidding. Michael Winner, anyone?

 

by CJ