It’s certainly an ambitious project, based on Andrew Sean Greer’s novel about a woman being treated for depression in the mid-1980s, after the death of her twin brother from AIDS. The treatment has the bizarre effect of allowing her to experience two alternate lives that she may have lived if she’s been born in a different time – as a bohemian adulteress in 1918, and as a devoted mother and wife in the early 1940s. However she soon discovers that while each reality has its joys, they also take a toll.
The book also focuses on her relationship with her gay twin brother, who in Greta’s other existences is in the closet and involved with a woman, but still having secret relationships with men.
Madonna comments to Harper’s Bazaar, “It touches on a lot of really important topics I’ve always been invested in or championed—fighting for women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, always fighting for the underdog. I’ve always felt oppressed. I know a lot of people would go, ‘Oh, that’s ridiculous for you to say that. You’re a successful white, wealthy pop star,’ but I’ve had the shit kicked out of me for my entire career, and a large part of that is because I’m female and also because I refuse to live a conventional life. I’ve created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable. I feel like everything I do makes people feel really uncomfortable. Why does this book appeal to me? Why did I want to adapt it into a screenplay? Because it touches me on so many levels and it deals with so many important topics. Right now, more than ever, it’s an extremely timely story to tell.”
It’s not clear when the film might be made, although it appears Madonna is deep in research for the movie and hoping to get it going soon.
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