{"id":43225,"date":"2025-08-07T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/ozzy-osbourne-biopic-about-life-and-love-still-moving-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:07:35","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-biopic-about-life-and-love-still-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/ozzy-osbourne-biopic-about-life-and-love-still-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne Biopic About Life and Love Still Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>First announced in 2021, the film &#8220;chronicling the extraordinary life of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, and the great love story between him and his wife, Sharon&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOzzy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sharon-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sharon-osbourne\" data-tag=\"sharon-osbourne\">Sharon Osbourne<\/a>\u2018s love story will still make its way to the big screen following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-dead-obituary-1227265\/\"> the musician\u2019s death.<\/a> According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/ozzy-sharon-osbourne-biopic-moving-forward-sony-1236479484\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em>, representatives for Polygram Entertainment confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sony\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sony\" data-tag=\"sony\">Sony<\/a> will move forward with the biopic about the metal legend\u2019s life and relationship that was first announced in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re currently in negotiations with a director, which could be confirmed very soon,\u201d the Universal Music Group company shared. Lee Hall is still attached to complete the screenplay. Osbourne Media will develop the film alongside Polygram Entertainment and Sony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c@SonyPictures and Polygram Entertainment are developing a biopic chronicling the extraordinary life of rock legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, and the great love story between him and his wife, Sharon,\u201d parties attached to the film shared in 2021. Ozzy shared the post on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OzzyOsbourne\/status\/1451569264112979969\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> nearly four years ago alongside a photo of himself with Sharon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt the time, Sharon shared, \u201cOur relationship at times was often wild, insane and dangerous but it was our undying love that kept us together. We\u2019re thrilled to partner with Sony Pictures and Polygram to bring our story to the screen.\u201d She will produce the film along with their children Jack and Aimee Osbourne, as well as Polygram\u2019s Michele Anthony and David Blackman and Sony\u2019s Andrea Giannetti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring an episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4T6bYPdZVFY?si=8pfuP3AEwuh6GB4s&amp;t=2343\" target=\"_blank\">The Osbournes Podcast <\/a>in 2024, Ozzy shared a blunt update on the progression of the film. \u201cBy the time they finish this film, I\u2019ll be dead,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanna be alive to fucking see it.\u201d Sharon added, \u201cMovies take forever to make.\u201d The musician died on July 22 at the age of 76. <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tJack noted that the film is expected to span their relationship between 1979 and 1999. The family debated which actors should play the leading roles, with Sharon expressing interest in Florence Pugh and Kelly noting that her father should be played by \u201can unknown actor who is very good,\u201d adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anyone you could think of now who would be able to do it.\u201d Jack pitched Bill Hader for the role, but received a swift \u201cFuck off\u201d from Ozzy in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>No Escape From Now,<\/em> an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-no-escape-from-now-documentary-1235279581\/\">upcoming documentary<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0Ozzy\u2019s health setbacks in recent years and his desire to stage a farewell concert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-documentary-no-escape-from-now-fall-release-1235393084\/\">will also still arrive<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-sharon-biopic-underway-sony-1235402973\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First announced in 2021, the film &#8220;chronicling the extraordinary life of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, and the great love story between him and his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}