Upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black has unveiled a first look image of star Marisa Abela (HBO’s Industry) as the late music icon. The photo debuted on Friday (January 13), as film company Studiocanal announced a partnership with Focus Features and Monumental Pictures on the music drama. Sam Taylor-Johnson, known as the visionary behind 50 Shades of Grey and Nowhere Boy, is directing the film.

Last July, Variety reported that Abela emerged as a frontrunner to play Winehouse in the biopic. According to the studios, Back to Black will capture “Amy Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early aughts and her intense journey to fame.”

“My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden,” Taylor-Johnson said in a statement. “I got a job at the legendary Koko Club, and I can still breathe every market stall, vintage shop and street. A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden. Like with me, it became part of her DNA. I first saw her perform at a talent show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho and it was immediately obvious she wasn’t just ’talent’ … she was genius.”

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