Discussions of the biopic about the singer Amy Winehouse already started in 2018, but now its production is in full swing.

And that’s why, Focus Features and StudioChannel they are working together on a new biopic for the British singer who left early. The film will be called “Back to Black” takes its name from Amy Winehouse’s second and last album during her lifetime.

Cinematic autobiography directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson who in the past also directed the John Lennon biopic The Boy From Nowhere and the highly successful Fifty Shades of Grey. In addition, for the film script, the director collaborates again after “Nowhere Boy” with Matt Greenhalgh.

Until now, we didn’t know which actress would play the singer, but the one who finally got the part, Marissa Abela, which became known mainly thanks to the TV series “Industry”.

The actress has confirmed that she will transform into Amy Winehouse on the big screen, and we can already get a little taste of her. first image Marissa Abela from the set.

The film received the consent of the Winehouse family, and in the press release we read, among other things: “Back to Black will focus on Amy’s intelligence, creativity and integrity, which have characterized her in everything she has done. On a journey that took her from the madness and color of ’90s Camden High Street to a worldwide cult following and back again. “Back To Black” looks through the mirror at that journey, to see what Amy saw, to feel what she felt.”

This may be the first Amy Winehouse biopic, but 2015 Asif Kapadia gave us a great documentary “Amy.”

According to NME.