{"id":50282,"date":"2025-08-07T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:39:07","slug":"ozzy-and-sharon-osbourne-biopic-still-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50282\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne biopic still in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"

A biopic based on Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> and Sharon Osbourne\u2019s lives and relationship is reportedly still in the works.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Ozzy Osbourne, 1948-2025: culture-smashing revolutionary that redefined rock and reality TV<\/a><\/p>\n

Variety has reported<\/a> that a representative for Polygram Entertainment has confirmed that the legendary couple\u2019s film is still being worked on at Sony Pictures. The film was first announced in 2021<\/a>, though with no director or cast attached.<\/p>\n

Oscar nominee Lee Hall \u2013 who wrote\u00a0Elton John<\/a>\u00a0biopic\u00a0Rocketman\u00a0<\/a>(2019) and\u00a0Billy Elliott\u00a0(2000) \u2013 was set to draft a script for the project. Sharon, Jack and Aimee Osbourne were attached to produce. Since then, little to no news has been shared in relation to the biopic, and it was seemingly put on ice.<\/p>\n

According to the Polygram Entertainment rep, they\u2019re \u201ccurrently in negotiations with a director, which could be confirmed very soon.\u201d The rep has also seemingly confirmed that Lee Hall is still slated to pen the film\u2019s script.<\/p>\n

While the film will include coverage of Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s legendary career both as the frontman of Black Sabbath<\/a> and as a solo star, it was seemingly focus primarily on his relationship with wife and manager Sharon.<\/p>\n

While a cast has yet to be announced for the biopic, Ozzy said in 2022 that he would like to see an \u201cunknown\u201d actor in the role<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t want to have anyone like Johnny Depp act as me. I rather have someone who is relatively unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal pioneer passed away last month<\/a>\u00a0(July 22) at the age of 76,\u00a0just weeks after playing the band\u2019s huge farewell show \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019<\/a>\u00a0in their hometown.<\/p>\n

It has since been revealed that\u00a0Ozzy\u2019s death certificate lists the cause of death as a heart attack<\/a>, while also mentioning that he was suffering from a coronary heart disease and Parkinson\u2019s.\u00a0It also listed his occupation as \u201cSongwriter, Performer and Rock Legend\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was laid to rest in the grounds of his UK mansion during a private ceremony that was attended by\u00a0Elton John<\/a>, members of\u00a0Metallica<\/a>\u00a0and more last week. Prior to that, his cortege travelled through Birmingham\u00a0in a procession attended by thousands of fans<\/a>, and was attended by his emotional family, including wife Sharon Osbourne, and children Jack, Kelly, and Aimee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A biopic based on Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne\u2019s lives and relationship is reportedly still in the works.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,3088,136,1771],"class_list":["post-50282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}