Producers StudioCanal and Monumental Pictures have dropped the first teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated Back to Black, the upcoming music biopic on the late Amy Winehouse.
Up-and-coming British actress Marisa Abela (Industry) plays Winehouse in the feature from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, 50 Shades of Grey). Back to Black bows in the UK and Ireland on April 12. Focus Features will release the film in the U.S. on May 10.
Written by Nowhere Boy and Control scribe Matt Greenhalgh, the biopic was made with the full support of The Amy Winehouse Estate, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Publishing and will feature many of Winehouse’s hit songs. In addition to the title track, the multi-Grammy-winning British soul sensation charted with such tracks as “Rehab,” “Valerie” and “Love is a Losing Game.” In her short career, she sold more than 30 million records worldwide. While she enjoyed stratospheric success, Winehouse struggled with addiction and intrusive media attention. She died on July 23, 2011, aged 27, of what was ruled an accidental alcohol overdose.
Back to Black focuses on Winehouse’s early years, living in London, her rise to fame, and the recording of her groundbreaking studio album, Back to Black.
Starring alongside Marisa Abela in the film are Jack O’Connell as Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Cowan as Amy’s parents Mitch and Janis Winehouse, and Lesley Manville as Amy’s grandmother, Cynthia.
Alison Owen (Me Before You, Elizabeth) and Debra Hayward (Les Miserables, Bridget Jones’s Baby) are producing Back to Black for Monumental Pictures alongside Nicky Kentish-Barnes (About Time, About A Boy). Sam Taylor-Johnson is executive producer, alongside Ron Halpern and Studioncanal SVP Global Production Joe Naftalin.
Check out the Back to Black trailer and poster below.