Producers of Madonna's upcoming biopic 'laughed' at the singer's 'ludicrous' demand for $100 million

Producers of Madonna's upcoming biopic 'laughed' astatine the singer's 'ludicrous' request for $100 cardinal - but she is 'not going to person it done immoderate different way,' a root has revealed.

The Like a Virgin songstress, 66, took to Instagram connected Monday greeting to springiness her fans an update connected the highly-anticipated film astir her life.

The movie, which is acceptable to beryllium directed by Madonna herself and volition prima Julia Garner, has been successful the works for years now, but has faced a bid of problems and delays.

And the hitmaker explained successful her latest station that she had faced yet different setback for the biopic due to the fact that she said producers had told her that she 'couldn't marque the film' if she didn't 'downsize.'

Now, a root has revealed exclusively to DailyMail.com that Madonna had asked for $100 cardinal to marque the movie, which didn't spell implicit good with producers.

'Madonna wanted $100 cardinal to bash this and [the producers] laughed astatine her. They told her that it was ludicrous,' they explained. 

But 'perfectionist' Madonna has nary plans to backmost down, arsenic the root added, 'Now she is going to beryllium raising the $100 cardinal herself.

'Madonna is simply a perfectionist, and she gets 1 accidental to archer her story, and she is not going to person it told immoderate different mode than however she wants it to beryllium told. 

'She is not going to springiness power of this to a workplace truthful that they tin marque a luck for telling her story.'

The insider explained that the instrumentalist is 'well-known' amongst her friends for being 'demanding and a monolithic power freak' - but that's what makes her enactment truthful amazing.

'Is she difficult? Extremely. Is she hard to enactment for? Absolutely. She is well-known for being a perfectionist, demanding and a monolithic power freak,' they shared.

'Anyone who has worked connected her shows volition archer you this. But Madonna is Madonna for a reason. She is an artist, and she has decided to spell backmost to the drafting board.'

A 2nd root told DailyMail.com that Madonna 'tossed retired a script' that was primitively presented to her due to the fact that she thought it was 'garbage,' and erstwhile she 'presented a caller script,' producers 'didn't similar it.' 

'So, she said, "F**k it I americium doing it my way,"' they explained.

The insider added that Madonna was present turning the task into a bid alternatively than a movie due to the fact that she 'cannot archer her communicative successful conscionable 2 hours.'

'There are truthful galore antithetic lives she’s lived,' they shared. 'She is breaking this up into a bid astir apt for Netflix and/or Hulu and each occurrence volition diagnostic a antithetic portion of her life. 

'Madonna’s full vocation has been built connected reinvention. The episodes volition archer her full communicative and volition beryllium breached up into her emergence to fame and struggles she faced with everyone telling her no. 

'A abstracted occurrence volition diagnostic her breakthrough. From that constituent it volition beryllium breached up into episodes that are separated by the medium she did astatine the time.

'For each of these albums, she was a antithetic person, a antithetic quality that she created to support radical connected their toes.'

'She volition person implicit power implicit this and ... each occurrence will, successful a sense, beryllium its ain movie astir the idiosyncratic she was for each monumental play of her life. She is going big.'

Variety reported backmost successful January 2023 that Madonna had 'scrapped' the biopic - which was expected to beryllium produced by Universal Pictures - truthful she could alternatively absorption connected her tour.

But successful July 2024, astir a twelvemonth and a fractional later, she announced connected Instagram that she was backmost to moving connected it.

On Monday, however, she shared her frustrations implicit clashing with producers, explaining successful an Instagram station that producers told her she had to 'downscale' and 'think smaller.' 

But she added that she had been 'working connected the task for 4 years,' and could not conscionable 'make it successful a mean way.' 

'Spending clip with my originative friends was conscionable the substance I needed to support going,' she wrote.

'We each agreed that we request to beryllium adjacent much fearless. Art = survival. We cannot shrink and marque ourselves smaller.

'If you privation thing severely capable successful beingness - the full beingness volition conspire to assistance you get it.'

She ended the enactment by asking her fans if they would similar she marque the communicative into a 'series oregon a diagnostic film.'