Olivia Newton-John Documentary About Her Rise and Challenges She Faced After Worldwide Fame Heading to Netflix

Olivia Newton-John fans will get an wholly caller look astatine nan precocious character and her profession successful an upcoming documentary.

Netflix announced connected Tuesday, June 24, that a caller documentary directed by Nicole Newnham will travel to nan streamer, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE. Newnham's 2020 Netflix documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, earned an Oscar nomination.

The untitled movie will research “the music, life, and magic of beloved popular prima and taste phenom Olivia Newton-John,” according to a release, per Deadline, which was nan first to study nan news. “In her ain words, done vivid archival and via reminiscences from adjacent friends and collaborators, we’ll travel Olivia’s travel arsenic nan world falls madly successful emotion pinch her and she ascends to nan tallness of fame, only to beryllium confronted by challenges of epic proportions.”

“This is nan communicative of a female who was perpetually underestimated contempt her mesmerizing talent, yet silencing her detractors by pushing done phenomenal nonaccomplishment and symptom pinch grace and gratitude,” nan merchandise read. “By discovering really to enactment existent to her beliefs, Olivia changed our civilization for nan better, bending it towards kindness, inclusivity, and love.”

“Olivia ever signed her letters ‘love and light’ and that is nan shimmering and hopeful bequest she has near us,” Newnham said, per Deadline. “As a young girl, I fell successful emotion pinch her, listening to Grease connected nan grounds subordinate connected repeat. But this unsocial filmmaking travel – heavy into nan archives and into nan astonishing organization of Olivia’s adjacent friends and family – has revealed a analyzable and bonzer female whose effect connected nan world is still rippling outwards.”

The documentary will beryllium produced by R.J. Cutler and his accumulation institution This Machine, which antecedently worked connected Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Elton John: Never Too Late and Martha.

Newton-John died of breast crab successful August 2022. She was 73. She announced successful May 2017 that she was diagnosed pinch bosom cancer, which had metastasized to nan sacrum. 

Newton-John was born successful nan U.K. successful 1948, earlier her family moved to Australia erstwhile she was 5 years old. After winning an Australian TV talent contest, she began touring pinch Pat Farrar for their enactment Pat & Olivia. By 1971, her solo profession had kicked off, pinch 2 albums – If Not For You and Olivia.

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In 1978, nan 12-time Grammy nominee’s acting profession took disconnected pinch Grease, successful which she starred other John Travolta. The Golden Globe nominee past starred successful nan 1980 musical, Xanadu, earlier later appearing pinch Travolta again successful 1983's Two of a Kind. Despite a fewer different movie and tv roles, Newton-John's attraction returned to music.

In 1992, she revealed her first test pinch bosom cancer. Her conflict — which included a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy and bosom reconstruction — yet led to nan creation of nan Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre successful Melbourne. Newton-John spent nan remainder of her life arsenic an advocator for crab consciousness and research.