Fair play to whoever edited that trailer. It wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be.
But is that Amy's singing voice in the trailer? It's either a different take of Back to Black, or someone else singing.
I hope they use Amy's singing voice in the film. That was the biggest flaw of the Judy Garland biopic.
Without the magic of Amy's voice, this film will feel even more unjustified.
Marisa Abela sings every song in the biopic, here's an excerpt (the last couple of paragraphs) from yesterday's interview with the director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, where she talks about the Back To Black Trailer ...
The trailer ends with Marisa Abela singing the title refrain of the film, 'Back To Black'. It wasn't always expected to work out that way. "When we first talked about it, my first question to [Marisa] was, 'Can you sing?' And she said, 'I can't'," Taylor-Johnson recalls. "I was thinking, maybe we'll use Amy's voice throughout, and we'll do it that way. She then went off after that audition – irrespective of whether she knew she'd got the part – and started training her voice." By the time Abela undertook a test recording at Abbey Road ("You can imagine how nerve-racking that is"), it was clear that she could pull it off. "Now she sings the entire movie, beginning to end," marvels the filmmaker. "I mean, it's a huge feat."
There was no higher bar to cross than winning over the real Winehouse's collaborators. "Amy's original band got back together, and we all went into the recording studio," she says. "Dale [Davis] was there, her bass guitarist, and Ade [Omotayo, singer], and we just all stood there and just went, 'Fuck!' She's incredible. They didn't know what to expect. They were just brimming with emotion, because it's such a multi-layer of feelings for the people who were close to her and worked with her." Throughout the shoot, the band kept coming back for more. "A lot of the times they would just actually show up on filming days when we were filming music scenes, to just sit and experience that."
You can read the full interview here https://www.looper.c...-back-to-black/
