Paramount+ has unveiled an emotional trailer for its Ozzy: No Escape From Now documentary ahead of an Oct. 7 premiere in the U.S. and internationally, excluding Japan.
The feature, directed by Tania Alexander, recounts the final years for Ozzy Osbourne, the late Black Sabbath frontman, as he and his family recount his long-term health struggles, including chronic depression and physical pain, following a serious fall in Los Angeles in 2019 and a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease that year.
“I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive,” the godfather of heavy metal, who died from a heart attack on July 22, at age 76, says at one point in the trailer. The doc reveals how Osbourne’s collaboration with Post Malone on the 2019 track, “Take What You Want,” brought much-needed physical relief.
“It got me out of the blues. It helped me. That was the best medicine I ever had at that point,” Osbourne adds in the trailer.
The upcoming premiere of Ozzy: No Escape From Now follows the BBC in the U.K. delaying the release of a separate documentary about the singer’s final years and health battles, Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, at the request of the Osbourne family.
Osbourne’s recent death came weeks after he performed his Back to the Beginning Farewell show in his hometown of Birmingham, U.K. Ozzy: No Escape From Now was produced with the Osbourne family and features interviews with the musician and wife Sharon Osbourne, and children Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne as they recalled the life-changing impact of his serious fall in 2019, which included a cancellation of a two-and-a-half-year farewell tour.
“He was in hospital for weeks. To fall like that and not be able to bounce back like he had in the past, and then having to cancel the tour – that was his biggest heart-break,” Aimee Osbourne says in the trailer.
Ozzy: No Escape From Now is produced by Echo Velvet, in partnership with the Osbournes and MTV Entertainment Studios. Bruce Gillmer, Amanda Culkowski, Phil Alexander and Sharon Osbourne share executive producer credits.
