Jack Osborne says the planned Ozzy Osbourne biopic will feature the fallout from Randy Rhoads’ death
Jack Osbourne has shared a fresh update on the long-awaited biopic about his father, late Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaking during a livestream on his YouTube channel last week, Jack – who serves as one of the movie’s producers – confirmed that the script is complete and the project is now actively moving forward.
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“I can tell you this: we are moving ahead,” he says [via Blabbermouth]. “I was on calls today about it. The script is right there. We are good. This movie will absolutely happen.”
While no director has yet been attached, Jack says the team is preparing to begin that process soon, though fans may still have a long wait ahead of them.
“Realistically – I mean, look, we’re already halfway through ‘26 – it probably won’t come out until ‘28,” he explains. “But you never know. But, yeah, we’re full steam ahead. We’re about to start going out and getting a director attached. So, fingers crossed. I’m really excited. It’s, yeah, very much been a labor of love, of course. But, yeah, I’m excited – I’m excited for everyone to see this film.”
Plans for an Ozzy biopic first emerged back in 2021, years before the singer’s death last July at the age of 76.
Jack had previously shed light on the film’s direction during an appearance on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast earlier this year, revealing that the project had undergone a rewrite and narrowed its focus to Ozzy’s early solo years following his departure from Sabbath.
Asked if details of the biopic had been announced yet, Jack said: “Well, it was announced that we were doing it with Sony Pictures. We haven’t announced the cast yet, ‘cause we haven’t settled [on all of it].”
“Initially it was gonna go from kind of my dad as a young man to the kind of mid-’90s, but we’re shrinking it down,” he said. “We’re doing a rewrite right now. In my perfect vision of it, it would be kind of the tail end of Sabbath, him going solo. [Because] you gotta have the love story. And that’s kind of the main focus of the film, and all the craziness that happened in the early ‘80s and Randy’s [Rhoads, late Ozzy guitarist] tragic death. But, yeah, it’s an origin story.”
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