Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black releases first trailer featuring Marisa Abela as British pop icon

The film comes with backing from Amy's family.

The forthcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black has released its first trailer, ahead of the film's release this year.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (who also helmed the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and the first Fifty Shades of Grey film), Back To Black comes with the backing of Amy's family, and sees Industry actress Marisa Abela transform into the late, great British pop trailblazer.

Charting the rise of the BRIT and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, Back To Black takes its name from one of Amy's greatest songs, as well as the title of the second and final studio album released in her lifetime.

Back To Black will also feature Skins' Jack O'Connell as Amy's one-time husband Blake Fielder-Civil, with Eddie Marsan and Juliet Cowan as her parents, Mitch and Janice. The Crown's Lesley Manville will also appear as Amy's late grandmother Cynthia, whose death is said to have destabilised Amy in the years running up to her untimely death.

WATCH the first trailer for Back To Black here

‘Back To Black’ in cinemas from April 12th.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson featuring Marisa Abela as Amy.
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Back To Black is set to make its UK debut on April 10 2024, this year will mark 13 years since Amy's tragic death on July 23 2011. Over the years, several attempts have been mounted to encapsulate Amy's life on film and ultimately fallen into development hell. A 2015 documentary, Amy, by the acclaimed filmmaker Asif Kapadia won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but was criticised by the Winehouse estate.

In her lifetime, Amy accumulated two UK Top 10 singles - 2007's Rehab (7) and Valerie with Mark Ronson (2). Following her death, Back To Black hit a brand new peak of Number 8, becoming her third Top 10 hit in the UK (8).

Back To Black was almost instantly hailed as Amy's masterpiece upon its initial release, where it scored three non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Offical Albums Chart in 2007. Following her death, Back To Black surged back to Number 1 for an additional three consecutive weeks and is now the 13th best-selling album of all time in UK chart history.

Back To Black hits UK cinemas April 10 2024.