The Amy Winehouse biopic Again To Black, starring Trade’s Marisa Abela because the late singer, has had its UK launch date formally confirmed.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the biopic will star Abela alongside Jack O’Connell as Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as her father Mitch, and Lesley Manville as her maternal grandmother.
And now, as confirmed on Abela’s Instagram account, it has been revealed that the movie will likely be launched into UK and Eire cinemas on April 12, 2024.
Taylor-Johnson has beforehand directed the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and the primary entry within the Fifty Shades of Gray franchise.
Matt Greenhalgh, who beforehand collaborated with Taylor-Johnson on Nowhere Boy, has written the script for Again To Black. Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Nicky Kentish-Barnes function producers.
The movie, which has the approval of her property, will characteristic songs by Winehouse. “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,” an announcement learn.
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 appeared within the movie, after he was overtly important of 2015 documentary Amy, directed by Asif Kapadia.
In April, Mitch joked that he wished to be performed by George Clooney over Marsan. “I instructed my pal that Eddie was enjoying me and he stated – excuse my French – ‘Eddie fucking Marsan! He’s not very handsome.’ I stated, ‘I do know – I wished George Clooney!’”
Mitch stated he requested script adjustments to Taylor-Johnson over his portrayal, including: “I despatched the primary script again. It made me appear like a saint – like I needs to be knighted. It was an excessive amount of.”
In September, to mark what would have been Winehouse’s fortieth birthday, Fielder-Civil spoke about their relationship, which started in 2005 and lasted, on-off, for six years.
Describing himself as a “20-year-old drug addict” on the time he was within the relationship, he was additionally requested what he would change if he was allowed the prospect to do issues over once more.
“Nearly every little thing,” he started. “Earlier than me and Amy did that collectively [taking heroin], I had tried it a couple of instances, so I recognise in myself now – and that is a part of being kinder to myself – I didn’t know what I used to be doing.”
“I wasn’t going into that with an intention of this taking place. I don’t suppose anybody that liked Amy, her household or her pals, would ever suppose that that is what I might have wished,” he continued. “Equally I feel that they’d’ve stated Amy wouldn’t have wished me to have taken the burden for the final 10-plus years.”
