Last week, information broke that “Industry” star Marisa Abela would play Amy Winehouse in Samuel Taylor-Johnson‘s upcoming biopic “Back To Black.” And now there’s the primary little bit of further casting information. Deadline studies that Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville be a part of the solid of the upcoming movie, with manufacturing at present underway in London.
So who do the three actors play in “Back To Black”? O’Connell performs Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse’s ex-husband and lover of her life. The pair married in 2006 however divorced acrimoniously after a relationship laden with booze, medicine, and rehab stints. As for Marsan, he performs Winehouse’s father, whereas Manville performs her maternal grandmother.
Taylor-Johnson reunites with “Nowhere Boy” scribe Matt Greenhalgh for “Back to Black,” a mission he’s had lengthy within the making. The director and Winehouse have been previous mates from their up-and-comer days in Camden borough of London within the late’90s-early ’00s. He’s needed to carry Winehouse’s story to the large display screen for years now. The upcoming movie focuses on Winehouse’s rise to fame from enjoying Soho music homes to her record-breaking Grammy win for her 2006 album “Back To Black.” The singer handed away in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.
In 2022, O’Connell starred in EPIX‘s “SAS Rogue Heroes” and Netflix‘s D.H. Lawrence adaptation “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” He performs race automotive driver Peter Collins subsequent for Michael Mann in “Ferrari,” hopefully in theaters later this 12 months.
Marsan stayed busy final 12 months with turns in “The Contractor,” “Choose Or Die,” and “Vesper.” Up subsequent, he stars in Guy Ritchie‘s long-delayed “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,” in US theaters in March. Also on deck for Marsan in 2023: the thriller “Fair Play,” set for its world premieres on the Sundance Film Festival later this month,” “Emperor,” and “Midas Man,” a biopic about music entrepreneur Brian Epstein.
Manville just lately performed Princess Margaret on the newest season of “The Crown.” Other latest credit embody the thriller “Let Him Go.” She stars subsequent in “The Critic,” a British period-piece suspense movie with Ian McKellen, Mark Strong, and Gemma Arterton.
As for a launch date for “Back To Black,” don’t anticipate it in theaters till 2024.