Madonna to co-write and direct a movie about her life and music

LOS ANGELES - Pop music superstar Madonna will direct and co-write a movie about her life for Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures, the studio said in a statement on Tuesday .

Madonna, 62, will team with Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody on the script, Universal said. The Material Girl and Express Yourself singer is the best-selling female music artist of all time with global sales of 335 million records. Over her five-decade career, she also acted in movies including Evita and A League Of Their Own and wrote and directed 2011 film W/E, about the British royal abdication scandal in the 1930s.

"I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer - a human being, trying to make her way in this world," Madonna said in the statement."Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive," she said.Early days........First Demo’s. 🎼📻🎼📻 #research #screenplay View this post on Instagram Early days........First Demo’s.

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