Amy Winehouse Biopic will Now be Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson

A biopic of late English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse has been in talks for a long time since 2018 to be exact. The film will now be directed by director Sam Taylor-Johnson.

Sam Taylor-Johnson is best known for directing popular movies like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and ‘Nowhere Boy’. The film about the Camden singer is to be titled, ‘Back To Black’ and the script will be written by Matt Greenhalgh, who was in the team of Johnson’s ‘Nowhere Boy’. The co-producers of the movie are Alison Owen, Studiocanal, Tracey Seaward, and Debra Hayward.

The film, ‘Back To Black’ is to be based on the book ‘Saving Amy’ by Daphne Barak. The book is based on the six months of filming that consists of 40 hours of footage, a lot of exclusive photos, and notes that the author finished with Winehouse and her family members in the last three years of her life before she died of alcohol poisoning back in 2011 at the age of only 27.

Winehouse’s family members confirmed that they have acquired a multi-million-pound deal for a biopic of Amy in 2018. At that time the film was said to be directed by Owen. Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse even stated that they were ‘very much looking aforward’ to informing the world about the ‘real Amy’ through the film.

But Last year it was Mitch Winehouse revealed that the ‘Back To Black’ film was ‘100% not allowed’ because the makers did not even approach the family or Amy’s record label Universal for the film.

As per the reports of TMZ, her father told the news outlet at the time, ‘They can’t be that stupid. Everyone knows proper licenses must be granted.’

In the 2021 BBC TV documentary about Amy Winehouse named, ‘Reclaiming Amy’, Mitch Winehouse appeared with his wife Janis. The documentary was released on the 10th death anniversary of the singer. Another documentary about the singer named, ‘Amy’ was also released in 2015 by Asif Kapadia. The Winehouse family was also openly critical of the documentary.

This is the second attempt to make an Amy Winehouse biopic after a 2015 project was abandoned. It was supposed to be directed by Kristen Sheridan and in which Noomi Rapace was to play the role of Winehouse. Mitch Winehouse stated before that he would not allow his daughter’s music to be licensed for a biopic.

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