In no small part, this is thanks to the casting of Renée Zellweger as the titular troubled star – the Oscar-winning actress thrilled earlier this year when photos of her were released in character, looking identical to Garland. Now the first full-length trailer for JUDY has dropped and it seems that Zellweger might just knock this one out of the park.

Set in 1968, as Garland arrived in London to perform a sold-out string of dates at Talk of the Town – now Leicester Square’s Hippodrome Casino – the film looks set to tackle the more unsavoury aspects of the Wizard of Oz star’s life, including her financial struggles, fading vocal ability and attempts to care for her children whilst in the grip of drug addiction.

“Mama, please don’t go to sleep now,” pleads Garland’s daughter in the back of a taxi, as her mother throws a handful of pills into her mouth after being asked to leave a hotel because her cheque bounced.

“No, no,” reassures Zellweger’s character, with dark humour. “These are the other ones.”

The first trailer for Renée Zellweger’s Judy Garland biopic has dropped – and we can’t wait to see it