Pop siren Mariah Carey has just announced her latest career venture: an adaptation of her autobiography The Meaning of Mariah Carey. Carey intends to pen the script herself, and possibly direct.
Carey, the singer known for such hits as “Emotions,” “Always Be My Baby” and perennial holiday favorite “All I Want for Christmas is You,” tells industry outlet The Hollywood Reporter that she’s in early talks to pen the script for either a limited series or film adaptation of her memoir. For Carey, it would mark her first foray into screenwriting.
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“Me, and a secret friend of mine,” the 50-year-old songstress said, “are talking about [an adaptation] and what it would look like. People have also been reaching out to me about it…people I haven’t heard from in years saying this has to be a series or a movie or whatever it’s going to be. These things take a long time, so it’s going to be what it is, but I believe in it. I’m really looking forward to it even just as a viewer, seeing these stories come to life.”
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Carey also teased the possibility of directing the adaptation herself, which would also mark her first directorial effort outside the Hallmark Christmas movie A Christmas Melody, which she directed and starred in 2015. If she did direct, Carey would follow in the footsteps of fellow pop icon Madonna, who is currently set to direct her own biopic from a script by Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
When it comes to the big screen, Mariah Carey has a checkered history. Despite acclaimed turns in the films Precious and The Lego Batman Movie, Carey’s most notorious outing remains the bomb musical Glitter. The film debuted in 2001 to disastrous reviews and became an infamous bomb.
Josh447
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Jack Meoff
Why is Mariah so popular? She is a spoilt diva and a one trick pony. She can’t act worth a damn either.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Her best onscreen performance was in Precious. She wasn’t acting in that movie. All she had to do was read her lines off of the hidden que card and that just what she acted like she was doing and did a good job of it. I was convinced that she was pretending to be acting and I assume thats what the director wanted. She looked and talked like a low life drug addict in that movie who loved rough sex and I’ll bet thats just what she is off screen.
Cam
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In Precious she played a social worker. But of course Republican trolls would hate a job where you aren’t harming others.
ScottOnEarth
LOL. The Meaning of Mariah can be summed-up in two words: “Talented Narcissist.” Her bio-pic will certainly be as selectively “factual” as her BS autiobiography of the same name.
Cam
That’s probably why she wants to direct it. Make sure only the good stuff is in there. I remember reading somewhere that she and her then husband used to shut down Disney World every so often and renew their vows dressed as a prince and princess.
Cam
She was good in Precious, and Glitter was a long time ago. Not sure she should direct, get a well known director who isn’t so emotionally invested in the stuff. Not sure I’ll see it, but she’s probably lived an interesting life.
Man About Town
Well if Bobby Cannavale is cast as Tommy Mottola, I might give it a shot.
Kangol2
Not sure about her directing skills, but Mariah Carey can sing. I say find the best writers and directors to portray her in the most flattering light, and then let her blow those pipes at every turn.
justgeo
Mariah used to be able to sing till she went all try to be black and forgot how to sing.