Sinead O'Connor Biopic Chronicling Singer's Early Years In the Works
Among the reported co-producers on the film are Irish indie film production company Nine Daughters (God's Creatures, Lady Macbeth) and See Saw Films (Slow Horses, The Power of the Dog). At press time spokespeople for O'Connor and ie:entertainment had not returned Billboard's request for comment on the film.
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Variety reported that the movie has been in the works since the release of the earlier doc, with Josephine Decker (Shirley) tapped to direct a script by Irish writer Stacey Gregg (Here Before, Ballywalter), with former Robbie Williams manager and music industry veteran Tim Clark on board as an executive producer through ie: entertainment. BBC Films is funding the film's development.
The film will reportedly focus on O'Connor's early life and journey through the music industry, telling 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.'
O'Connor burst onto the music scene in 1987 with her genre agnostic debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, which mixed beat-driven pop, goth rock, confessional folk, shoegaze and ethereal chants. The singer's shocking bald headed look and powerful vocals on songs such as the college rock hit 'Mandinka' and the jangly 'I Want Your (Hands on Me)' made her an instant fascination and landed her a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance.
From the beginning, O'Connor was a voice to be reckoned with, never holding her tongue or pulling punches when it came to calling out injustice or the abuse of power. She became a reluctant global superstar thanks to her Grammy-winning 1990 sophomore album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which featured her beloved cover of the Prince-written 'Nothing Compares 2 U.'
The intense scrutiny sometimes proved to be a struggle for O'Connor, who was an outspoken critic of the Catholic church and famously ripped up a picture of then Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992 while saying 'fight the real enemy' nearly a decade before John Paul publicly acknowledged the Catholic Church's long history of child sex abuse. O'Connor — who said she suffered sexual and emotional abuse as a child — was criticized by the likes of Madonna, actor Joe Pesci and the Anti-Defamation League for the action and two weeks later was booed during a 30th anniversary tribute concert for Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden.
The singer went on to release eight more albums during a career, jumping from reggae, to traditional Irish songs and fairly straight-ahead pop.
The O'Connor biopic will come amidst a recent bumper crop of re-tellings of famous rock and pop legends, including the Queen film Bohemian Rhapsody, the Elton John biopic Rocketman, last year's Bob Dylan A Complete Unknown, as well as the upcoming Bruce Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere, a quartet of Beatles movies in 2028 and either a TV series of film version of Madonna's early years.
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