Behind the project is the IEE Irish producer IE: Entertainment, who worked at the documentary on O’Connor “Nothing compares”.
Sinéad O’Connor He will have his own biographical film, the late Irish singer released his first album, “The Lion and The Cobra “ In 1987 at 21 years. While his talent impressed criticism, he jumped to fame three years later, when he premiered his version of the Prince Classic “Nothing compare 2 U”.
Now the Variety portal reported that a film is being prepared that will tell the life of the Irish singer, who died in 2023 at 56. Behind the project is the IEE Irish producer: Entertainment, who worked at the O’Connor documentary “Nothing compares“, Together with Nine Daughters (” God’s Creatures “,” Lady Macbeth “) and See-Saw Films (” Slow Horses “,” The Power of the Dog “) Nine Daughter and See-Saw.
The film will be directed by Josephine Decker (“Shirley”), with a script by the Irish writer Stacey Gregg. The founder of Nine Daughters, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, and the Oscar-winning duo formed by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (“The King’s speech”, “Lion”) of See-Saw will be the producers, just like Neil Chordia (Urban Hymn), with the renowned musician Tim Clark as an executive producer for IE: Entertainment. BBC Film will finance the material.
The life of Sinéad O’Connor
O’Connor became one of the most legendary figures in Irish cultural history and a pioneer for women around the world. At 23, he won a Grammy for his second album, “I do not want what i Haven’t Got”which remained six weeks at number 1 on the American Billboard list in 1990 and included the successful single “Nothing compares 2 U”, one of the best -selling songs of the year. The album and the simple accumulated multiple international musical awards, including a Billboard and a Brit Award, while O’Connor became the first woman to win the video prize of the MTV year.
In addition to her music, O’Connor was a passionate activist and, as she described it, a “protest singer”, who used his platform to denounce problems such as sexism in the music industry and corruption within the Catholic Church. During an appearance in “Saturday Night Live” In 1992, with only 25 years, he broke a photo of the Pope John Paul IIwhich unleashed a wave of convictions.
The biographical film, according to Variety, will explore the childhood and youth of O’Connor and its beginnings in the music industry. He will seek to tell the story of how a young Dublines faced the world, examining how his worldwide fame could have cemented in his talent, but his name became synonymous with his efforts to make visible the crimes committed by the Catholic Church and the Irish state.
Source: Ambito
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