10 More Upcoming Movies That Are Already Doomed

Ever since Bohemian Rhapsody made almost $1 billion and won a bunch of Oscars, Hollywood has been industriously cranking out musical biopics like their life depends on it. Next up on the block, we have Back to Black, the dramatisation of singer Amy Winehouse's life and premature death.

Winehouse's story is certainly a fascinating and tragic one that might befit the cinematic treatment, but the trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson's film suggest it's a pretty generic, surface-level take, with actress Marisa Abela not resembling Winehouse nearly enough. More to the point, Asif Kapadia's 2015 documentary Amy felt like such a concise and effective summation of Winehouse's life that it's tough to picture this rather cheap-looking narrative version living up to it.

Furthermore, the film has been endorsed by Winehouse's father Mitch; a controversial figure in her life, who in the 2015 documentary was characterised as exploiting his daughter. As such, it's reasonable to expect a relatively sanitised, straight-laced biopic that planes the tricky edges away.

Many of the singer's die-hard fans have questioned the film's necessity at all, and if even they're not convinced a biopic needs to exist, this thing has little hope of breaking out with the mainstream.