A Sinéad O'Connor -Biopic is under development.
diversity It has learned that a film is in the works that tell the history of early life and the career of the legendary Irish musician who died at the age of 56 at the age of 56.
Behind the project is the Irish production company Ie: Entertainment, which produces the O'Connor documentary “nothing comparisons” celebrated by the criticism (and worked with the singer) together with Irish banner-nine daughters (“God's creatures”, “Lady Macbeth”) and seeing films (“Slow Horses”, “The Power of the Hund”). Nine daughters and Sea-Saw have previously combined after they had worked together on “Ammonit”. diversity has turned to Search-SAW films for confirmation without an answer.
The film, which has been in the works since 2022, is staged by Josephine Decker (“Shirley”), who works from a script from a script from a script from a script from a script. The nine daughters Fodla Cronin O'reilly and the Oscar winner of Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (“The King's Speech”, “Lion”) from See-Saw will produce Neil Chordia (Urban Hymn), with music that Tim Clark as Executive Producer Produc on behalf of IE: Entertainment serves. BBC film finances the development of the film.
O'Connor became one of the most legendary personalities in Irish cultural history and a pioneer for women around the world. At the age of 23, she won a Grammy for her second album “I don't want what I don't have”, which in 1990 spent six weeks in 1st place in the USBillboard charts and contained the hit single “Compare 2 U”, one of the biggest sales songs of the year. The album and the single collected several global music awards, including a billboard and Brit Award, while O'Connor was the first woman to win an MTV video of the year.
In addition to her music, O'Connor was a passionate activist, activist and, as she described it, “protest singer” who used her platform to denounce problems such as sexism in the music business and corruption within the Catholic Church. During a appearance of “Saturday Night Live” from 1992 and then only 25 years old, she opened a picture of Pope John Paul II, who triggered a wave of conviction.
The biopic, diversity Hears, O'Connor's early life and beginnings will explore in the music industry. It will try to tell the story of how a young woman from Dublin took over the world and examines how her global fame was built on her talent, but her name became synonymous for her efforts to draw attention to the crimes of the Catholic Church and the Irish state.
The complete credits for the biopic include Decker as a director, Gregg as a writer and O'Reilly, Chordia, Canning and Sherman as producers. The project is a search films, nine daughters and IE: entertainment production. Ie: Co-founder of Entertainment, Clark, is together with the Joint Managing Director of See-Saw Film, Simon Gillis, and the leading employee of BBC Film Inbo Commissioning, Kristin Irving, Executive Produce.