Sam Taylor-Johnson, very best recognized for Nowhere Boy and Fifty Sun shades of Gray, is ready to direct a biopic about singer and shut buddy Amy Winehouse. Eu studio Studiocanal is generating the movie titled Again to Black, which pulls its identify from the overdue singer’s a couple of Grammy-winning studio album.
Consistent with Selection, the script for the film is whole and the challenge is now in casting levels.
Taylor-Johnson hopes to solid a relative newcomer to play Amy Winehouse within the movie. The singer-songwriter, additionally recognized for songs “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Excellent”, died on the age of 27 because of unintentional alcohol poisoning in 2011.
The approaching characteristic movie has the whole reinforce of Mitch Winehouse, the overdue singer’s father, who used to be portrayed in a detrimental gentle in Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-winning documentary Amy. He additionally participated within the BBC documentary Reclaiming Amy, which marked the 10-year anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s demise.
Again to Black is penned by means of Matt Greenhalgh, Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy collaborator.
A biopic about Amy Winehouse has been underneath building for a very long time, with Alison Owen and Debra Hayward hooked up from the outset.
The Winehouse property first signed a deal for the movie in 2018. On the time, the challenge used to be being advanced at the foundation of an authentic script by means of author Geoff Deane of Kinky Boots repute.
Studiocanal is generating Again to Black with Owen and Hayward along Tracey Seaward.