“Fifty Shades of Grey” director Sam Taylor-Johnson has been set to direct “Back to Black,” the biopic of the late Grammy-wining singer Amy Winehouse for Studiocanal.
Matt Greenhalgh has penned the script which is expected to take a look at the life and music of Winehouse who started off as a budding North London jazz singer before becoming a Grammy-winning music superstar with hit albums like “Rehab” and “Back To Black”.
Her life would be cut short in 2011 at age 27 following a long battle with alcohol and drugs. Tracey Seaward, Alison Owen and Debra Hayward will produce the project which would follow in the wake of 2015’s “Amy” documentary which won an Oscar.
The new film is being made with full support from the Amy Winehouse estate and producers and Taylor-Johnson will begin a casting search in the coming weeks.
Source: Deadline
