Itâs been a few years, but Deadline is reporting that Madonna is about to return to her first and greatest love: directing feature films. Just 10 years after Filth And Wisdom (which wasnât so good) and seven years after W.E. (which also wasnât so good), Madonna has signed on to direct a movie for MGM called Taking Flight. The Deadline story says itâs based on the true story of Michaela DePrince, a woman who âgrew up an orphan in war-torn Sierra Leone but rose to become a world-renowned ballerina,â and Camilla Blackettâa writer for New Girl and Fresh Off The Boatâwill adapt it from DePrinceâs 2014 memoir of the same name.
DePrinceâs story certainly seems worthy of a feature film, with Deadline explaining that her father was shot by rebels when she was only three, and her mother died of starvation a week later. Her uncle sent her to an orphanage, and she was later adopted by an American family who encouraged her to pursue ballet. Deadline says she even appeared in part of BeyoncĂŠâs Lemonade videos.
Madonna is also set to direct the Andrew Sean Greer adaptation The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
