Sinéad O’Connor biopic in the works

Sinéad O’Connor is the latest musician to get the biopic treatment.

Per Variety, the biopic will follow the early life and career of the late Dublin singer, who passed away in 2023.

The biopic will be produced by the production company ie:entertainment, who produced the 2022 documentary Nothing Compares with O’Connor’s involvement.

Variety reports that the film has been in the works since 2022, prior to O’Connor’s death.

See-Saw films, behind the Oscar-winning drama The Power Of The Dog and the critically acclaimed Apple TV series Slow Horses, will also serve as one of the production companies behind the film.

The film will be directed by American filmmaker Josephine Decker, who directed Elisabeth Moss in a drama about novelist Shirley Jackson in 2020, and the film will be written by acclaimed screenwriter Stacey Gregg, who penned the 2023 Patrick Kielty drama Ballywalter.

The direct logline, per Variety, states that the film “will explore O’Connor’s 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.”

After breaking out in the late 1980s as an alternative icon, O’Connor crossed over to the mainstream in 1990 with her global hit Nothing Compares 2 U.

The song, which topped the charts across the world, made O’Connor a household name and a cultural icon, with O’Connor later remarking that she didn’t like the newfound commerical pressures that were put on her.

The track, written by Prince, was the subject of a row between the late singers; Prince’s estate refused permission to use the song in the Nothing Compares documentary.

Speaking to People Magazine in 2021, O’Connor simply stated, “I won’t lie; I didn’t like the man.”

No word on who will play O’Connor in the biopic or when it’ll hit screens.