The Spice Girls are wanted for a tell-all Netflix docuseries.
The team behind the streaming giant’s recently released Take That three-parter are keen for the ’90s girl group – Emma Bunton, Mel B, Geri Horner, Melanie C and Victoria Beckham – to tell their “brilliant story”.
Director David Soutar told the Daily Star: “The Spice Girls would be amazing next. We’ll see how this one goes and then we’ll speak to Spice Girls!”
Producer Gabe Turner would want Victoria aka Posh Spice – who sat out the band’s 2019 reunion tour – to be involved.
He said: “Posh is sensational.
“We make a fair amount of music and sport docs around pop culture so we’re always looking opportunities, the Holy Grail really is the Spice Girls. I think the entire world would like to do Spice Girls.
“I’m having a lot of chat about how much I want to do the Spice Girls. I think the Spice Girls are fielding probably thousands of people saying they want to do the Spice Girls, I just hope someone gets to do it because I think it’s another brilliant story.”
Victoria had her own self-titled docuseries last year after the success of her retired football legend spouse Sir David Beckham’s series.
Soutar revealed that Take That gave them full creative control over their doc for it to be warts and all.
He explained: “The band were very generous with us, and we made it clear from the start that we basically needed creative control of the project.
“We kind of always fight for that because otherwise, what’s the point in taking on the project? We’re not just here to sort of show as purely a celebration of them. We want to do their justice story, but that’s a massive responsibility to be a curator of someone else’s story.
“And there’s a huge pressure with that because then you are presenting your version of their story to the band, the people subject, and then also out to the world. So it’s hard for them. But they understood, and I think mainly that was because we offered them the context in the start. I think we explained that we’re not just going to be just taking them through the best days with the highlights. This isn’t the highlight reel. We’re going to be taking them to the other elements of their story. And I think because we talked about it beforehand, that’s sort of our style. We don’t just ambush you, we give them the context, make sure they know what’s coming, and then get them prepared for it so that you can take me to those places, and they were very generous in letting us take them to those places.”
It was a difficult watch for Gary Barlow, who had to revisit his struggles with an eating disorder and his brutal fallout with former bandmate Robbie Williams.
