Check out these exclusive ‘Back To Black’ film posters
nme.comBack To Black tells the story of Amy Winehouse in a feature film format for the first time – and ahead of its release next month (April 12), we’re publishing three special movie posters exclusively on NME.
Check them out below.Following Amy from her teenage years, growing up in north London, through her meteoric rise to Grammy-winning sensation in the 2000s, Back To Black (in cinemas April 12) stars Industry actress Marisa Abela in the lead role, alongside BAFTA-nominated actor Jack O’Connell, who plays Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, and acclaimed actress Lesley Manville as her grandmother Janis Levy.
Eddie Marsan and Juliet Cowan have been cast as Amy’s parents Mitch and Janis Winehouse.The film has been directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who helmed well-received 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy as well as the big screen adaptation of erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy, Ian Curtis biopic Control) has written the screenplay.“We really wanted to do it from [Amy’s] perspective, and through her eyes; to take us on the journey through her music, and through her words, so that we’re back with her,” Taylor-Johnson told Empire in January when the first trailer was revealed. “Rather than the documentary, which is very much outside looking in.
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