Sam Taylor-Johnson is bringing Amy Winehouse’s life story to the massive display screen. The “Fifty Shades of Gray” filmmaker has been tapped to helm “Again to Black,” a Studiocanal biopic of the Grammy-winning jazz singer. Deadline broke the information.
A documentary tracing Winehouse’s meteoric rise, the abuse she suffered from the media, and her struggles with dependancy, was launched in 2015. Titled “Amy,” it gained an Oscar for finest documentary. Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in 2011. She was 27 years previous.
Apart from “Again to Black,” Winehouse’s largest hits included “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good.”
Taylor-Johnson most not too long ago directed episodes of the star-studded Prime Video anthology sequence “Solos” and a 2018 adaptation of James Frey’s “A Million Little Items.” Her largest field workplace hit, the primary installment of the “Fifty Shades of Gray” franchise, took in additional than $569 million worldwide. She made her function debut with 2009’s “Nowhere Boy.”
