Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville have joined the ensemble cast of Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black.’
Break-out star Marisa Abela (INDUSTRY) will take on the coveted lead role as Winehouse. O’Connell will play the love of Winehouse’s life, Blake Fielder-Civil. The two would marry in 2007, but after a tumultuous relationship filled with booze and drugs that led to stints in rehab, they divorced before Winehouse’s death.
Eddie Marsan will play Winehouse’s father, with Lesley Manville playing her maternal grandmother.
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Acclaimed filmmaker and visual artist Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct and executive produce the film. Matt Greenhalgh will pen the film, reuniting the scribe with Taylor-Johnson following their collaboration on ‘Nowhere Boy’ in 2009. Featuring many of Amy’s hit songs, BACK TO BLACK has the full support of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Publishing and The Amy Winehouse Estate.
Alison Owen (Saving Mr Banks, Me Before You, Elizabeth), Debra Hayward (Les Miserables, Bridget Jones’s Baby) of Monumental Pictures are producing, Nicky Kentish-Barnes (What’s Love Got To Do With it?, Everest) executive produces, with Nina Gold leading the casting of the film. EVP Global Production Ron Halpern and SVP Global Production Joe Naftalin execut
