Current:Home > InvestSee Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in first trailer for biopic 'Back to Black' -ProfitPioneers Hub
See Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in first trailer for biopic 'Back to Black'
Indexbit Exchange View
Date:2025-04-10 21:49:59
Amy Winehouse's story is getting the biopic treatment.
The first trailer for "Back to Black," a new film starring Marisa Abela as the late singer, debuted on Thursday. The short teaser offers glimpses of Abela's Winehouse performing to cheering crowds, being chased by the paparazzi and recording the movie's title song.
"I don't write songs to be famous," she says in the trailer. "I write songs because I don't know what I'd do if I didn't." She also declares that she "ain't no Spice Girl," and the footage closes with Abela's Winehouse reflecting that she wants to "be remembered for just being me."
The trailer also provides a look at Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil, played by Jack O'Connell.
"Back to Black" was directed by "Fifty Shades of Grey" filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson, whose first movie, "Nowhere Boy," was about a young John Lennon. Matt Greenhalgh, the screenwriter of "Nowhere Boy," also wrote "Back to Black."
Watch Amy Winehouse biopic trailer
Winehouse, whose short but iconic career also produced hits like "Rehab," struggled with drug and alcohol addiction during her life and was found dead in her home in 2011 at age 27. Her cause of death was ruled as accidental alcohol poisoning.
Remembering Amy WinehouseA look back at the singer's life and career in photos
According to Focus Features, "Back to Black" will feature "many" of Winehouse's hit songs, and it's being made with the full support of The Amy Winehouse Estate. "We are thrilled that StudioCanal, Focus Features and Monumental are making this movie celebrating our daughter Amy's extraordinary music legacy and showcasing her talent in the way that it deserves," the estate previously said.
Taylor-Johnson also said she is "fully aware of the responsibility" of telling Winehouse's "beautifully unique and tragic story," promising to "create a movie that we will all love and cherish forever. Just like we do Amy." Focus Features describes the movie as a "never-before-seen glimpse" into Winehouse’s rise to fame and release of her album "Back to Black," which debuted in 2006. The studio adds, "The film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time."
"Back to Black":What we learned from the new Amy Winehouse documentary
Abela is best known for starring as Yasmin on "Industry," and she also recently appeared in a small role as Teen Talk Barbie in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie."
"Back to Black," the latest in a string of biopics about iconic musicians including "Elvis" and "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody," also stars Eddie Marsan as Winehouse's father, Mitch, Juliet Cowan as her mother, Janis, and Lesley Manville as her grandmother, Cynthia.
The film is scheduled for release in the United States on May 10.
veryGood! (76172)
Related
- Jay Kanter, veteran Hollywood producer and Marlon Brando agent, dies at 97: Reports
- The Indicator Quiz: The Internet
- Ringleader of 6-person crime syndicate charged with 76 counts of theft in Kentucky
- ACLU sues over Indiana law blocking gender-affirming surgery for inmates
- Angelina Jolie nearly fainted making Maria Callas movie: 'My body wasn’t strong enough'
- Kathy Griffin's Lip Tattoo Procedure Is a Transformation You Need to See to Believe
- Medicaid expansion won’t begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 because there’s still no final budget
- Russia says Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's death confirmed in plane crash after genetic testing
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- Pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting alcohol shot dead by police in Ohio
Ranking
- Southern California rocked by series of earthquakes: Is a bigger one brewing?
- Trey Lance trade provides needed reset for QB, low-risk flier for Cowboys
- Judge could decide whether prosecution of man charged in Colorado supermarket shooting can resume
- Influencer Brianna Chickenfry Responds to Criticism of Zach Bryan Romance
- Behind on your annual reading goal? Books under 200 pages to read before 2024 ends
- California sues district that requires parents be notified if their kids change pronouns
- Selena Gomez Reveals She Broke Her Hand
- Alabama presses effort to execute inmate by having him breathe pure nitrogen. And the inmate agrees.
Recommendation
Vance jokes he’s checking out his future VP plane while overlapping with Harris at Wisconsin airport
Into the raunchy, violent danger zone of 'Archer' one last time
News outlet asks court to dismiss former Mississippi governor’s defamation lawsuit
Ukraine breaches Russia's defenses to retake Robotyne as counteroffensive pushes painstakingly forward
Taylor Swift Cancels Austria Concerts After Confirmation of Planned Terrorist Attack
Coco Gauff enters US Open as a favorite after working with Brad Gilbert
China won’t require COVID-19 tests for incoming travelers in a milestone in its reopening
'Claim to Fame' winner Gabriel Cannon on 'unreal' victory, identifying Chris Osmond