Marisa Abela stars as Amy Winehouse in director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s ‘Back To Black.’
Amy Winehouse is broadly thought of one of many biggest artists in latest historical past, promoting greater than 30 million information worldwide, and at the moment producing greater than 80 million streams monthly. Her acclaimed 2006 album “Back to Black”, propelled her to world stardom, happening to win a (on the time) report breaking 5 Grammy Awards, together with Record Of The Year and Song of The Year for hit single “Rehab”. She obtained her begin on the North London jazz circuit and rose to grow to be a musical celebrity.
She’s additionally well-known for tragically dying far too younger from alcohol poisoning on the age of 27 in 2011. So her life is of course one thing that filmmakers have been seeking to deliver to the screens for years, and Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary ‘Amy’ did a effective job of chronicling her work and world.
But discuss of a biopic surfaced the identical 12 months and again then, Noomi Rapace was connected to play Winehouse for ‘August Rush’ director Kirsten Sheridan, however that challenge by no means got here to fruition.
Marisa Abela on HBO’s ‘Industry.’ Photo: Simon Ridgway/HBO.
Then got here ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and ‘Nowhere Boy’ director Sam Taylor-Johnson, who’s reuniting with the latter movie’s author Matt Greenhalgh for ‘Back to Black’. Backers Studio Canal, Focus Features and Monumental Pictures have introduced a film that “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 coloration of ‘90s Camden High Street to global adoration––and back again.” The film will reportedly “crash through the looking glass of celebrity to watch this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy saw, to feel what she felt.”
And now we know who will be playing Winehouse herself, as ‘Industry’ actor Marisa Abela has landed the lead function, a actually appears to be like the half within the first publicity shot from the movie, which can kick off manufacturing subsequent week in London. Abela, who has additionally been seen in motion pictures equivalent to ‘She is Love’ and ‘Rogue Agent’, has a job in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’, in theaters on July twenty first.
Taylor-Johnson is worked up to dig into the story and do Winehouse justice. “My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden. I got a job at the legendary KOKO club, and I can still breathe every market stall, vintage shop, and street,” she says in a press release.
“A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden. Like with me, it became part of her DNA. I first saw her perform at a talent show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho and it was immediately obvious she wasn’t just ‘talent’… She was genius. As a filmmaker you can’t really ask for more. I feel excited and humbled to have this opportunity to realise Amy’s beautifully unique and tragic story to cinema accompanied by the most important part of her legacy – her music. I am fully aware of the responsibility, with my writing collaborator––Matt Greenhalgh––I will create a movie that we will all love and cherish forever. Just like we do Amy.”
Amy Winehouse from ‘Amy’ documentary.
