Amy Winehouse Scripted TV Series in Works

A new scripted series based on English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse‘s life is in the works. 

The project comes after Halcyon Studio bought the rights to the bestselling book "Saving Amy" by Daphne Barak.

Media outlets reported they plan to adapt it into an eight-part show. 

The series will explore the singer’s relationships, including with her family and father Mitch, as well as her talent and battle with drug addiction.

Writer Mal Young is set to adapt the book, which charts six months that Barak and producer Erbil Gunasti spent with Winehouse and her family.

“Although her career was cut far too short, Amy was the voice of a generation and we look forward to telling her story in the most poignant way possible,” Halcyon Studio chief executive David Ellender said in a statement.

Winehouse died in 2011 aged 27. A biopic about the star is also in the works from director Sam Taylor-Johnson called "Back To Black", also based on the book.

It is unclear if the two projects are related.

Last month, James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli opened up about a  meeting with Winehouse about potentially recording the theme song to 2008’s "Quantum Of Solace". 

“Well, that was a very very distressing meeting, she was not at her best and my heart really went out to her,” Broccoli recalled in The Sound Of 007 documentary.

“She was very fragile emotionally and you know, you understood how she could create such moving material because she has a great depth of feeling and it was very very tragic,”.

“What an incredible talent, what an incredible voice, what an incredible person she was and it was very very sad,” she added.