14 DAY TRIAL // Amy Winehouse was just 27 when she died. She was just as talented as she'd been troubled, deeply flawed and, because of it, fascinating. Big Hollywood producers are now trying to bring her story to the big screen, it has emerged.
Becoming tabloid fodder in her final years for her troubled life instead of for her music, Amy never ceased to fascinate.
Addicted first to heavy drugs and Blake Fielder-Civil, who later became her husband, Amy eventually died because she couldn't kick her addiction to alcohol.
A movie of her life, which will most likely also tackle her final days, is in the making, the Daily Mail informs, citing ongoing media reports.
However, while this might sound like good news to fans, it actually isn't. There's no one to play her, the British tab believes.
“Several Hollywood producers are considering buying the screen rights to a book about the hugely gifted, but fatally flawed, North London singer,” the Mail writes.
“There’s no screenplay and there isn’t a director yet, and any film is still a long way off. But there is a tome called Saving Amy, written last year by celebrity journalist Daphne Barak, who also made a documentary of the same name for Channel 4,” adds the same e-zine.
Whereas Lady Gaga was at some pointed linked to an upcoming possible Winehouse biopic, she would be wrong for the part.
“It should be someone who can sing and act and she would need to be someone with spirit, energy and talent, not some nobody from some TV talent show and certainly not Lady Gaga – that would be a travesty,” the Mail writes.
Casting the right actress for the part is vital: it's actually one of the few things that can make or break a project, especially one as ambitious as an Amy Winehouse biopic.
“David Hare pointed out the other night, at a fabulous tribute to Vanessa Redgrave hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that actors are vital contributors to any movie, often more vital than the director,” says the Mail.
However, what the British publication doesn't say is who could play Winehouse, if not Gaga.