A biopic detailing the lifetime of the late Amy Winehouse is ready to go forward, with director Sam Taylor-Johnson now on the helm.
Entitled Again To Black, Johnson – identified for her work on Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades Of Gray – will direct the movie in regards to the Camden singer. The script for the movie can be written by Johnson’s Nowhere Boy cohort, Matt Greenhalgh. The movie can be based mostly on Daphne Barak’s guide Saving Amy, and co-produced by Studiocanal, Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Tracey Seaward.
Winehouse’s household first confirmed a multi-million-pound deal to make a biopic again in 2018, with Owen then slated to direct. Winehouse’s father, Mitch, later informed NME the household have been “very a lot trying ahead” to a narrative introducing folks to “the true Amy”.
Taylor-Johnson’s biopic reportedly has the assist of Winehouse’s property, together with Mitch Winehouse, in keeping with Selection. Final yr Mitch Winehouse publicly mentioned that the Again To Black biopic was “100 per cent not allowed”, claiming these behind the venture hadn’t approached the household or his late daughter’s document label, Common.
He reportedly informed TMZ on the time: “They’ll’t be that silly. Everybody is aware of correct licences should be granted.”
Mitch Winehouse appeared within the 2021 BBC tv documentary Reclaiming Amy, launched to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the singer’s loss of life, alongside his spouse Janis. It adopted the discharge of Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary Amy, of which the Winehouse patriarch was overtly crucial.
Again To Black marks the second try to create a biopic surrounding Winehouse’s life, following an deserted 2015 venture (per Pitchfork) that was to star Noomi Rapace as Winehouse and to be directed by Irish filmmaker Kristen Sheridan. Mitch Winehouse has additionally said up to now that he would “by no means permit” for Winehouse’s music to be licensed for a biopic.
