Trade star Marisa Abel has been confirmed to play Amy Winehouse in upcoming biopic Again To Black – take a look at the primary picture above.
Focus Options has partnered with StudioCanal on the undertaking, which has been in talks since 2018. The studio launched a photograph of Abel in character on Friday (January 13), confirming prior reports that she’d been forged because the Camden singer.
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Again To Black shall be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, finest identified for steering the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades Of Gray. Filming is about to begin on Monday (January 16) in London.
Matt Greenhalgh, who beforehand collaborated with Taylor-Johnson on Nowhere Boy, has written the script for the biopic. Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Nicky Kentish-Barnes will function producers.
The undertaking, which has been accredited by the Amy Winehouse property, will characteristic songs by the singer. “We’re thrilled that Studiocanal, Focus Options and Monumental are making this film celebrating our daughter Amy’s extraordinary music legacy and showcasing her expertise in the best way that it deserves,” reads an announcement from her property.
In response to a press launch, Again To Black will “give attention to 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 Excessive Avenue to world adoration – and again once more, Again To Black crashes via the trying glass of celeb to look at this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy noticed, to really feel what she felt.”
Talking concerning the movie, Taylor-Johnson mentioned: “My connection to Amy started after I left school and was hanging out within the creatively various London borough of Camden. I bought a job on the legendary Koko Membership, and I can nonetheless breathe each market stall, classic store and road.
“A number of years later Amy wrote her searingly sincere songs while dwelling in Camden. Like with me, it turned a part of her DNA. I first noticed her carry out at a expertise present at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Membership in Soho and it was instantly apparent she wasn’t simply ’expertise’… she was genius. As a filmmaker you’ll be able to’t actually ask for extra.
“I really feel excited and humbled to have this chance to grasp Amy’s fantastically distinctive and tragic story to cinema accompanied by crucial a part of her legacy – her music. I’m totally conscious of the duty, with my writing collaborator – Matt Greenhalgh – I’ll create a film that we’ll all love and cherish ceaselessly. Similar to we do Amy.”
Abela is finest identified for taking part in Yasmin Kara-Hanani in HBO collection Trade. She’s additionally set to star in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming live-action movie adaptation of Barbie, reverse Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
Winehouse’s life was the topic of the 2021 BBC documentary Reclaiming Amy, launched to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the singer’s demise. Her father Mitch Winehouse appeared within the movie, after he was brazenly vital of 2015 documentary Amy, directed by Asif Kapadia.