Jack Osbourne says the Ozzy biopic script is finished and the film is being made with fans in mind.
Jack Osbourne has given the clearest update yet on the Ozzy Osbourne film, telling E! News that the script is written, directors are being approached, and an actor has been discussed for the lead. He also set out the principle he says he brings to every meeting about it.
Asked how his work as a television producer shapes what he does with the family’s projects, Osbourne described a single guiding rule.
“I kind of have this mantra, and I always kind of say it, when in meetings with my mom or doing anything in the family business, it’s, like, ‘Give the fans what they want.’ That’s our people. That’s who we’re catering to. That’s what my dad wrote mu[sic] — that’s who he wrote music for. That’s what he toured for. It’s why we did the shows we did. It’s been a big theme. ‘Cause we’re doing the Ozzy movie with Sony, and I’m always saying in the meetings, ‘All right, we gotta give the fans what they want. We can’t make this artsy kind of esoteric biopic.’ No. We’re not doing that — for many reasons, but it’s not what the fans want,” he said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth).
On progress: “[The] script [is] done. We’re currently going out to directors. And, yeah, it’s gung-ho.”
Regarding casting he said: “We do. We do. I’m not allowed to say. But conversations have been had, and if it all works out, it’s gonna be awesome.”
The project has been in development for five years. Ozzy announced it himself in 2021, when Sony Pictures and Polygram Entertainment set it up with Lee Hall writing, the screenwriter behind “Rocketman“, “Billy Elliot” and “Victoria & Abdul“. It was described then as covering both his life and his marriage to Sharon Osbourne, who is producing.
Ozzy died in July 2025 at 76, weeks after Black Sabbath‘s farewell concert in Birmingham.
Jack also returned to the reaction the family got in May, when they announced at Licensing Expo in Las Vegas that they were building an AI-powered avatar of his father with the technology companies Hyperreal and Proto Hologram.
“Admittedly, I think I spoke kind of out of turn in the sense of really kind of explaining why we’re doing it,” he said. “Everything is gonna have an A.I. fingerprint on it at some point. Ultimately, it’s about preserving the digital fingerprint of my father. That’s the core essence of it. Yes, it can be utilized for other things, but ultimately it’s about getting ahead of what is the inevitability.”
The avatar is designed to answer questions from the public in Ozzy‘s voice and appear in life-sized Proto Luma units in the UK and United States. Hyperreal has previously built digital versions of Stan Lee, The Notorious B.I.G. and Lionel Messi, and de-aged Paul McCartney for a 2021 video. Its chief executive Remington Scott said at the announcement that every element came from approved material — “curated, consented, and controlled by the people who love him most.”
The response has been divided. Supporters point to the family’s control over the source material; critics have called it a commercial exercise and raised the prospect of the likeness being licensed for advertising he never agreed to. At Licensing Expo, Jack told the audience the result was accurate to the point of being unsettling, and has said the family had discussed the idea with his father before he died.
Jack was speaking while promoting the launch of the streaming platform Spark.
