Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Set To Score Amy Winehouse Biopic 'Back To Black'

Australian music legends Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have signed on to create the score for Back To Black, the new biopic about English singer Amy Winehouse, Variety reports.

Cave and Ellis composed the score for the 2022 Andrew Dominik film Blonde, based on Marilyn Monroe. Dominik and Cave are collaborators, with the former having directed the Cave documentaries One More Time With Feeling and This Much I Know to Be True.

However, Cave’s work on Back To Black will mark his first collaboration with his friend and director Sam Taylor-Johnson.

“Nick and Warren were the only musicians in my mind to score Back To Black,” Taylor-Johnson said in a statement, per The Guardian. “Over the years, I’ve listened to everything they’ve composed and longed to realise the dream of working together. Their sensibility as well as understanding of this story has led to a profoundly deep and moving film score.”

Back To Black will land in cinemas on Thursday, 11 April. The movie is led by Industry star Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse, with Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Cowan playing members of the Winehouse family. Jack O’Connell will star as Amy’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. Matt Greenhalgh penned the script, which depicts the singer’s early beginnings as a jazz singer and her tumultuous rise to fame.

Back To Black has been made with the blessing of the Winehouse estate and will feature songs from Amy Winehouse’s career. You can watch the trailer below.

Nick Cave will bring an intimate tour to Australia this April, accompanied only by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood.

In a press release, Cave said about the tour, “I cannot wait to bring this special show to Australia next year, accompanied by the great Colin Greenwood. It is a privilege to share the songs with an audience in this way – stripped back and unadorned, revealing their essential nature.”

The tour follows Cave’s last visit to Australia in late 2022, when he took to the stages alongside frequent collaborator Warren Ellis, plugging their Carnage album from the year before.

In other Nick Cave news, his 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro is being adapted for television, with House Of The Dragon actor Matt Smith onboard to executive produce and play the titular role.