Amy Winehouse Biopic Taps ‘Fifty Shades’ Director Sam Taylor-Johnson

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson has been tapped to helm the biopic about late singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.

Studiocanal is behind the project, titled Back to Black, which is backed by Winehouse’s estate. Matt Greenhalgh penned the screenplay, with exact plot details currently unknown. A casting search for the onscreen Winehouse is expected to begin soon.

More from The Hollywood Reporter

• Amazon Raises Price of Prime Subscriptions in Europe by Up to 43 Percent  

• Peacock Orders Gladiator Drama With Director Roland Emmerich

• American Black Film Festival Returning to U.K. for International Screening Series (Exclusive)

The Grammy-winning singer is best known for her second album, Back to Black, which included chart-topping records “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good,” among others. The singer, who battled drug and alcohol addiction, died at age 27 from alcohol poisoning.

Studiocanal is producing with Alison Owen and Debra Hayward, alongside Tracey Seaward.

Winehouse’s career and death were the subject of Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy, which won the best documentary Oscar at the 2016 Academy Awards.  There was also the 2021 BBC documentary Reclaiming Amy, which marked the 10-year anniversary of the singer’s death.

Taylor-Johnson directed the first installment of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise. Taylor-Johnson’s other feature credits include Nowhere Boy and A Million Little Pieces. She is repped by CAA, Brillstein and Sloane Offer.

Best of The Hollywood Reporter

• Lena Dunham on Her First Film in a Decade, Youthful Blind Spots and Hope to Reboot 'Girls'

• What Ridley Scott Has Learned: "We Don’t Know S***"

• Lady Gaga on Mining Personal Pain for 'House of Gucci'

Click here to read the full article.