A feature film about the late British singer Amy Winehouse is in the works, with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ said director Sam Taylor-Johnson, who runs biopic production and distribution company Studiocanal.
I call ‘Back to black’the film will look at the life and music of the six-time Grammy award winner, who died of alcohol poisoning at her north London home on July 23, 2011. Winehouse, who struggled with alcohol and drug problems for much of his career, he was 27 years old.
“Studiocanal is preparing to do Back to Black. The project is moving forward with Sam Taylor-Johnson attached to direct the feature film about the life and music of Amy Winehouse,” Studiocanal said, adding that a script for the film had been written.
“Back to Black is being done with the full support of Amy Winehouse’s estate.”
British filmmaker Taylor-Johnson is known for directing the first ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie, an adaptation of the successful book trilogy, drama ‘A million little pieces’ as well as episodes for television series ‘Gypsy’ Y ‘alone’.
Considered one of the most talented singers of her generation with hits including ‘Rehabilitation’ Y ‘Back to black’Winehouse’s untimely death rocked the music world.
Several documentaries have been made about her, the most recent narrated by her mother and broadcast by the British BBC in 2021 to mark 10 years since the singer’s death.
A 2015 documentary ‘AMY’ about Winehouse won director Asif Kapadia an Oscar, though at the time the singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, called it misleading and said the family had disassociated itself from the film.
Industry publication Deadline said the search for the actor to play Winehouse in the film will begin in the coming weeks.
