ARCHIVE – The British singer Amy Winehouse Photo: Steve C. Mitchell/epa/dpa
It will start on Monday, director Sam Taylor-Johnson (55, “Fifty Shades of Grey”) wrote on Instagram on Friday. The Brit also posted the first picture of leading actress Marisa Abela in the iconic look of the celebrated singer – with a lavishly teased updo , tattoos and big earrings.
The British Abela (26), known from the HBO series “Industry”, posted a photo in which she is standing in front of a large graffiti portrait of Winehouse. “I love you Amy,” she wrote.
The biopic plans to film the Grammy winner’s eventful life became known last June. Back to Black is being written by Matt Greenhalgh, who previously wrote the script for Taylor-Johnson’s debut feature film Nowhere Boy (2009), about the young John Lennon.
Winehouse (“Rehab”, “Back to Black”) died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27 after years of struggling with drug and alcohol problems. British director Asif Kapadia shot “Amy” in 2015, an Oscar-winning documentary about the life of the soul star. This is the first feature film to also secure support from the Winehouse estate.
(SDA)