Sinéad O’Connor biopic in the works produced by company behind Slow Horses | Movies

A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor is within the works, with its backers together with the corporate concerned in Nothing Compares, the acclaimed 2022 documentary concerning the singer.In keeping with Selection, the movie will probably be directed by Josephine Decker, who made a much-liked biopic of horror author Shirley Jackson, starring Elisabeth Moss, in 2020. The script will probably be by Stacey Gregg, who has credit on TV collection Mary and George, Little Birds and The Letter for the King.Manufacturing corporations behind the undertaking embody See-Noticed Movies, whose previous output contains The King’s Speech, Disgrace, The Energy of the Canine and Gradual Horses, alongside 9 Daughters (God’s Creatures, Girl Macbeth) and ie:leisure, which acted as govt producer on Nothing Compares.O’Connor died in 2023, aged 56, after a string of hit data together with the huge-selling Nothing Compares 2 U in 1990, and a tumultuous life marked with outspoken protest and controversy. In 1992 she ripped up an image of the pope on US TV; in 1999 she was ordained as a priest by an impartial Catholic group, and in 2018 she transformed to Islam.In keeping with Selection, the movie will comply with O’Connor’s early years within the music trade, “inform[ing] the story of how one younger girl from Dublin took on the world, inspecting how her international fame might have been constructed on her expertise, however her title turned synonymous along with her efforts to attract consideration to the crimes dedicated by the Catholic church and the Irish state”.