Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, titled Back In Black, will grace our cinema screens on the twelfth April, 2024.
A biopic on singer Amy Winehouse’s life has been within the works for some time, however this isn’t the primary time the late singer’s life has been portrayed on display.
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy was a critically acclaimed hit, however Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, was essential of it, calling the expertise of watching the movie “horrible”. He instructed the filmmakers as a lot, too.
Back To Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, crucially has the help of the Amy Winehouse Estate. Marisa Abel was solid within the lead position after a formidable flip in HBO’s Industry.
Winehouse shot to worldwide fame in 2006 along with her second album Back To Black; songs like Rehab resonated with listeners all around the world. Throughout her profession, Winehouse offered over 30m information, and her music nonetheless generates over 80m streams a month to this present day. Winehouse died tragically of alcohol poisoning in 2011 after battling habit.
Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville spherical out the solid. Matt Greenhalgh, who additionally collaborated with Taylor-Johnson in 2009’s Nowhere Boy, has penned the script. The movie went into manufacturing earlier this yr.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Back To Black will deal with Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused the whole lot she did. A journey that took her from the craziness and color of 90’s Camden High Street to world adoration – and again once more, Back To Black crashes by way of the wanting glass of movie star to look at this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy noticed, to really feel what she felt.”
Although Winehouse’s father claimed that he would by no means permit any filmmaker to make use of Winehouse’s music in a movie about her after being sorely disenchanted with Amy, Back To Black has been confirmed to function the singer’s work. Universal Music Group and Sony Music Publishing, alongside the Winehouse Estate, have given the manufacturing their blessing.
Back To Black is ready to reach in UK cinemas on the twelfth April 2024.
