A trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” will be released in the coming days. For the time being, I can report that a May 10, 2024 US release date has been confirmed by Focus Features.
“Back to Black” completed production in April. “Industry” actress Marisa Abela is playing Winehouse. This has been a passion project of Taylor-Johnson’s for almost a decade — she was one of Winehouse’s closest friends.
The screenplay for “Back to Black” is being penned by Matt Greenhalgh, who previously collaborated with Taylor-Johnson on “Nowhere Boy” and also wrote “Control,” the acclaimed biopic about late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
Let’s just forget that Taylor-Johnson also directed 2015’s critically-maligned “Fifty Shades of Grey.” She has more or less disowned that film, citing the creative difficulties she had working with the novel’s author E. L. James.