Shania Twain Biopic Now in the Works with Singer Producing: Report
Shania Twain Biopic Now in the Works with Singer Producing: Report
Daniel S. LevineThu, June 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM UTC
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Shania Twain in May 2026Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty -
A new film about Shania Twain's life is reportedly in the works
Leah McKendrick, who directed the upcoming Netflix rom-com Voicemails for Isabelle, is set to write and direct Shania
Twain is preparing to release her seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, next month
Shania Twain is the latest music icon to get the biopic treatment.
A film based on the singer's life, simply titled Shania, will be written and directed by Leah McKendrick for Sony Pictures, Deadline reports. Twain, 60, will reportedly be involved in the project as producer, alongside Amie Karp.
McKendrick, 39, previously wrote and directed Scrambled in 2023 and the upcoming Netflix romantic comedy, Voicemails for Isabelle. Her past experience as a pop singer-songwriter played a role in her winning the Shania job, per Deadline.
A rep for Twain had no comment.
Shania Twain in July 2025.Credit: Mathew Tsang/Getty
While plot details for Shania weren't revealed, Twain's journey from Windsor, Ontario to country superstar in the 1990s offers plenty of inspiration for a feature film. Her catalog of smash hits includes "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," "That Don't Impress Me Much," "You're Still the One," "Up!" and "I'm Gonna Getcha Good."
Twain is also preparing to release her seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, next month. In an interview with PEOPLE at Shania Twain's Rose Ceremony in May, Twain said the new record is a "reflection of my childhood" and the "environment I grew up in."
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"I'm turning 60 and I feel good and I've got to celebrate that. I'm grateful to have made it this far," Twain told PEOPLE. "So I was celebrating that with all of the Queen of Me music. But who makes you who you become basically. I had never shared that with the fans before."
"It was really fun to revisit the past with a really great and positive outlook," Twain later told PEOPLE. "I took ownership of being able to say to myself and to share it out loud in the music that it's made me who I am. I wouldn't trade it for anything because I'm actually quite happy with where I am and who I am and I wouldn't trade that."
Little Miss Twain, her first album since 2023's Queen of Me, will be released on July 24.
Shania Twain attends the Academy of Country Music Awards in May 2026.Credit: David Becker/Getty
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McKendrick made her writing debut with M.F.A. in 2017 and also received story credit on the 2025 horror remake I Know What You Did Last Summer. Her next film, Voicemails for Isabelle, stars Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson, and will be released on Netflix on June 19.
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