The upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Again to Black has revealed the primary have a look at Marisa Abela portraying the late icon. Abela, finest identified for taking part in Yasmin Kara-Hanani in HBO’s Business, was chosen to play Winehouse in July after a extremely aggressive search. The picture reveals Abela trying just like the spitting-image of Winehouse, donning gold hoops, her signature, outsized beehive coiffure, tattoos and tiny magnificence mark above her lip.

There have been a number of makes an attempt through the years to inform Winehouse’s story with a biopic, however Again to Black is the primary to get off the bottom. The movie is being made by Studiocanal, now in partnership with Focus Options and Monumental Footage for its launch. Sam Taylor-Johnson, who helmed 50 Shades of Grey and Nowhere Boy, in regards to the childhood of John Lennon, is directing.

Notably, Again to Black additionally has the complete assist of the Amy Winehouse Property. A 2015 A24 documentary, Amy, received an Oscar for its depiction of the Grammy-winning singer’s decline into dependancy and eventual loss of life from alcohol poisoning in 2011, however was infamously derided by Winehouse’s father for its depiction of him. In keeping with studios, Again to Black will observe “Amy Winehouse’s vibrant years dwelling in London within the early aughts and her intense journey to fame.”

“My connection to Amy started after I left school and was hanging out within the creatively numerous London borough of Camden,” Taylor-Johnson stated in an announcement. “I received a job on the legendary Koko Membership, and I can nonetheless breathe each market stall, classic store and road… Just a few years later Amy wrote her searingly trustworthy songs while dwelling in Camden. Like with me, it turned a part of her DNA. I first noticed her carry out at a expertise present at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Membership in Soho and it was instantly apparent she wasn’t simply ’expertise’… she was genius. As a filmmaker you possibly can’t actually ask for extra. I really feel excited and humbled to have this chance to grasp Amy’s fantastically distinctive and tragic story to cinema accompanied by a very powerful a part of her legacy – her music. I’m totally conscious of the accountability, with my writing collaborator – Matt Greenhalgh – I’ll create a film that we’ll all love and cherish eternally. Similar to we do Amy.”

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