Sam Taylor-Johnson to Direct Amy Winehouse Biopic “Back to Black”

Sam Taylor-Johnson is bringing Amy Winehouse’s life story to the large display. 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 greatest hits included “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good.”

Taylor-Johnson most just lately directed episodes of the star-studded Prime Video anthology sequence “Solos” and a 2018 adaptation of James Frey’s “A Million Little Items.” Her greatest field workplace hit, the primary installment of the “Fifty Shades of Gray” franchise, took in additional than $569 million worldwide. She made her characteristic debut with 2009’s “Nowhere Boy.”