Soul icon
Biopic about Amy Winehouse – first trailer released
A first trailer for the biopic about soul icon Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011, has been released. Named after the album title “Back to Black”, the film is about the beginnings and successes of the Grammy winner and her eventful private life. photo
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Songs like “Back To Black”, “Rehab” and “Valerie” made her world famous. Now there is a first trailer for the film about the eventful life of Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011.
The British actress Marisa Abela (27) transforms herself into the soul icon who died in 2011 Amy Winehouse. The first trailer for the biopic “Back to Black” has now been released. Abela, known from the HBO series “Industry”, can also be seen in the clip in the celebrated singer’s iconic look with a lush updo and tattoos. Named after the album title “Back to Black”, the film is about the beginnings and successes of the Grammy winner and her eventful private life.
The Brit Jack O’Connell (33) plays her long-term partner Blake Fielder-Civil, to whom Winehouse was married from 2007 to 2009. Through him the singer also got drugs. She died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27 after years of struggling with drug and alcohol problems.
The film by director Sam Taylor-Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) is scheduled to hit theaters in April. The screenplay for “Back to Black” comes from Matt Greenhalgh, who previously wrote the script for Taylor-Johnson’s feature film debut “Nowhere Boy” (2009) about the young John Lennon.
With “Amy,” British director Asif Kapadia made an Oscar-winning documentary about the life of the soul star in 2015. This is now the first feature film to also secure the support of the Winehouse estate.