Shania Twain’s life story is heading to the big screen.
The film Shania is in development at Sony Pictures, with writer-director Leah McKendrick steering the project and Shania herself onboard as a producer.
According to Deadline, McKendrick’s background as a singer-songwriter helped her land the job.
The filmmaker confirmed the project and how “honoured” she is to be helming the project as a huge fan of the Man! I Feel Like A Woman! hitmaker.
She shared to Instagram: “Long before I was making movies, I was shooting Shania music videos in my bedroom.
“This wild-hearted force of a woman means so much to me – and the world. It is a surreal dream come true to get to bring her trailblazing, gut-punching, awe-inspiring story to the screen (and ride horses and eat pasta in the process!) I am honored. I am humbled. I am READY. Let’s go, girls. (sic)”
The biopic news arrives as Shania, 60, prepares to launch her next album.
The five-time GRAMMY winner has announced her seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, calling it her most soul-searching record yet.
The recently released lead single, Dirty Rosie, offered a first taste of a project that blends the sounds that shaped her – country storytelling, pop gloss, rock grit, soul warmth and even a flash of bluegrass. The full album drops July 24.
Shania says the new music digs deep into the years before superstardom
She explained: “A lot of Little Miss Twain is reflective of my teens, my roots as well as the energy of the rock and R’n’B I loved so much, but still with that Western twang.
“Where I’m from you don’t go anywhere on a horse – you go on a snowmobile. I was dreaming about the Western lifestyle and I was living in a very different world than where I ended up.”
Little Miss Twain follows 2023’s Queen of Me, a global tour, and multiple sold-out Las Vegas residencies. And she’s not slowing down. Before the album lands, Shania will join Harry Styles for a massive 12-night takeover of Wembley Stadium.
Meanwhile, Shania is set to play an intimate London show that mirrors the bar stages she performed on as a child.
Long before she became one of the world’s best-selling artists, the Canadian star was singing late at night in Timmins, Ontario, from the age of eight – a formative period she revisits on the new record.
To mark the release, she will perform for one night only at The Shacklewell Arms in East London on June 6, her first bar-stage appearance in may years.
