What period of her illustrious, four-decade-long career would the film focus on?

Would it feature new music?

And, most importantly, who could possibly play the pioneering Queen of Pop navigating her formative years?

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Now, according toVariety, we finally have an answer to the latter: Julia Garner.

“I read that Universal was doing a script… they wanted my blessing, and I read it.

It was the most hideous, superficial crap I’ve ever read.

This [has] happened a couple of times.

So, finally, I just threw down the gauntlet.”

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