\n\tA Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor biopic is in development.<\/p>\n
\n\tVariety has learned that a film is in the works that will tell the story of the early life and career of the iconic Irish musician, who died in 2023 at the age of 56.<\/p>\n
\n\tBehind the project is Irish production company ie: entertainment, which executive produced the critically acclaimed O\u2019Connor documentary \u201cNothing Compares<\/a>\u201d (and worked with the singer in the process), alongside fellow Irish banner Nine Daughters (\u201cGod\u2019s Creatures,\u201d \u201cLady Macbeth\u201d) and See-Saw Films<\/a> (\u201cSlow Horses,\u201d \u201cThe Power of the Dog\u201d). Nine Daughters and See-Saw reunite having previously collaborated on \u201cAmmonite.\u201d Variety has reached out to See-Saw Films for confirmation without response. <\/p>\n \n\tThe film \u2014\u00a0which is understood to have been in the works since 2022\u2019s \u201cNothing Compares\u201d doc \u2014\u00a0is being directed by Josephine Decker (\u201cShirley\u201d), working from a script by Irish writer Stacey Gregg. Nine Daughters founder Fodhla Cronin O\u2019Reilly and the Oscar-winning duo of Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (\u201cThe King\u2019s Speech,\u201d \u201cLion\u201d) from See-Saw will produce, as will Neil Chordia (Urban Hymn), with music heavyweight Tim Clark serving as executive producer on behalf of ie: entertainment. BBC Film is funding the film\u2019s development. <\/p>\n \n\tO\u2019Connor became one of the most legendary figures in Irish cultural history and a trailblazer for women across the world. At 23, she won a Grammy for her sophomore album \u201cI Do Not Want What I Haven\u2019t Got,\u201d which spent six weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard chart in 1990 and contained the hit single \u201cNothing Compares 2 U,\u201d one of the biggest selling songs of the year. The album and single amassed multiple global music accolades, including a Billboard and Brit Award, while O\u2019Connor became the first woman to win MTV Video of the Year.<\/p>\n \n\tAlongside her music, O\u2019Connor was a passionate campaigner, activist and, as she described it, \u201cprotest singer,\u201d using her platform to denounce issues such as sexism in the music business and corruption within the Catholic Church. During a 1992 appearance on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and just 25 years old at the time, she famously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II, sparking a wave of condemnation.<\/p>\n \n\tThe biopic, Variety hears, will explore O\u2019Connor\u2019s early life and beginnings in the music industry. It will look to tell the story of how one young woman from Dublin took on the world, examining how her global fame may have been built on her talent, but her name became synonymous with her efforts to draw attention to the crimes committed by the Catholic Church and the Irish state.<\/p>\n \n\tFull credits for the biopic include Decker as director, Gregg as writer and O\u2019Reilly, Chordia, Canning and Sherman as producers. The project is a See-Saw Films, Nine Daughters and ie: entertainment production. Ie: entertainment co-founder Clark will executive produce, alongside See-Saw Film\u2019s joint managing director Simon Gillis and BBC Film commissioning executive Kristin Irving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor biopic is in development. Variety has learned that a film is in the works that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,57488,57489,57490],"class_list":["post-82320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-nothing-compares","tag-see-saw-films","tag-sinu00e9ad-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}