Keira Knightley & Amy Winehouse Being Considered For The 'Dusty Springfield' Biopic?

Last April it was confirmed that, “The Hours” writer, Michael Cunningham, was writing the screenplay for the Dusty Springfield biopic.

Variety confirmed shortly thereafter the reports that Nicole Kidman was attached to star while also announcing that Universal was developing their own Springfield biopic with Kristin Chenoweth attached to star).

Now the British rags are getting into the business updating this more-than-year-old story. Take it with a grain of salt possibly, but the Daily Express says that on top of Kidman, producing team Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of London-based Number 9 Films are considering Keira Knightley, and even troubled singer Amy Winehouse for the part.

The fact that anyone would consider Winehouse for a movie role, let alone someone to drive you to the airport probably clues you in to this report being bullshit, but the Brits still adore Winehouse, so there’s a chance someone may think she could actually pulls this off. It’s the first movement we’ve heard on the subject since last April and yes, while the tedious “Amelia,” may just have killed biopics dead, we’re rather huge fans of Springfield and would be curious to see where this goes. This report says production could start late next year. We’ll see, but it is a project we’re interested in (though no Wino please).

As Vulture once noted, the biopic could cover multiple strands in her storyline including, “the lonely years in exile from the U.K. in Hollywood, the drinking and the drugging, and the tortured bisexual/lesbian feelings that wove through her checkered career, which ended when she died of cancer in 1999.”Watch: Dusty Springfield – “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself”

Watch: Dusty Springfield – “Spooky”