The documentary Asif Kapadia had spent in 2015 had not really liked to the family of Amy Winehouse. The father of the diva, has undertaken to “restore the truth”, or let us say his own, with his own movie. This project is now on track and should get out of here “a year or two,” said Mitch Winehouse in the podcast The Morning After.
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Announced first as a documentary, the film will ultimately be a work of fiction chronicling the life of the british singer, who died at age 27 of a drug overdose in July 2011. “We’ve passed the stage of the discussions, the scenario is being written, he said to the actor Paul Danan. The film will be a biopic.”
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Who to slip into the skin of the interpreter of Rehab ? The actress has not yet been found, but “the cast will be a revealing of the star,” promised Mitch Winehouse, stating they have obtained a producers make the final decision regarding the actress chosen to portray her daughter. “We’re going to caster a actress, unknown ideally, a young jewish woman from the north or the east of London that looks to Amy and talks like Amy”, he confided.
An Oscar in sight ? To believe the previous statements of Mitch, the film could follow the formula of feature films Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, both rewarded by the Academy. “It will be a different story, of course, but it will follow a storyline similar I imagine, even if we are not there yet. It is really exciting”, had entrusted the father of the singer to NME in the month of march.
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Amy, the documentary by Asif Kapadia released in 2015 brushed her in a touching portrait, and intense of the diva. Presented at the Cannes film festival, it won the Oscar for best documentary the following year. Mitch Winehouse had vehemently criticized the vision of “misleading” in Kapadia. It is true that in this movie, it was not the role of the…
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