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Cancel all your plans, because the trailer for Netflix’s Britney vs Spears documentary has just been released!
The Netflix documentary about Britney Spears and her 13-year-long conservatorship is slated to land on the streaming service on September 28; and judging from the trailer alone, it looks like it’s going to give us one of the most detailed and revealing insights into the 39-year-old popstar’s conservatorship we could have ever hoped for.
The documentary is directed by Erin Lee Carr – the filmmaker behind documentaries such as At The Heart of Gold: Inside The USA Gymnastics Scandal and I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter – and might just answer all our questions about what life for Britney has been like over the past 13 years. It will center around the controversial conservatorship, and go into detail about her father Jamie Spears’ involvement in her life, career, and finances, while also raising questions about conservatorships in general and the overall justice system.
Carr and journalist Jenny Eliscu reportedly spent two-and-a-half years investigating the singer, paying very close attention to just how much legal control those involved in her conservatorship have. According to Netflix, “text messages and a voicemail as well as new interviews with key players make clear what Britney herself has attested.”
And the date it comes out is very significant too, as the Womanizer singer is due in court on September 29 (her biggest and most significant court appearance of her life!) to fight for her freedom and officially remove her father as her legal guardian. All eyes will be on Britney next week!
The trailer doesn’t give too much away, but reels us in by asking the questions the fans have been asking for the past 13 years. “What was going on inside the conservatorship? And why was she still in one if she was okay?” the trailer asks. “There were financial incentives for Jamie, for the lawyers,” the voiceover adds. “Britney made other people a lot of money.”
The initial teaser that was released before the trailer was very haunting, as there were no images; instead, it was a simple snippet of a voicemail from Spears to a lawyer just after midnight on January 21, 2009, whereby she “wanted to make sure” something was being done about “eliminating the conservatorship.”
“Hi my name is Britney Spears, I called you earlier,” she says in the voicemail. “I’m calling again because I just wanted to make sure that during the process of eliminating the conservatorship…” Truly haunting.
Netflix hasn’t officially confirmed who will be featured in the documentary, although the singer’s former assistant, Felicia Culotta, appears in an image released by the streaming platform, so there's at least one familiar face her fans will recognize. Also in the documentary, according to the trailer, is an unnamed man who appears to be a medical professional, saying, "I’m not going to acknowledge that I was ever brought in to evaluate Britney Spears." Spears’ ex paparazzo, Adnan Ghalib, can also be heard in the trailer. We can't wait to find out more!
We wonder if any more teasers will be released before the documentary comes out…
Britney vs Spears will be available to watch on Netflix from September 28.
