A biopic based on the early life of musical icon Madonna is currently in the works (via The Hollywood Reporter), set to track her experience of New York City in the early 1980s, recording her first album while fighting against the industry that sought only to devalue and commodify its women.
Blond Ambition is Hollander’s first script, having previously worked an assistant to Alejandro G. Inarritu while he made Birdman.
Madonna Louise Ciccone originally moved from Michigan to New York in 1978 to pursue a career in dance, though she soon found herself writing and performing her own music.
Which proved to be her golden ticket; after a few successful singles, she began work on her 1983 debut album Madonna, which spawned the hits ‘Holiday’, ‘Borderline’, and ‘Lucky Star’.