A first look at the feature-length documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now reveals the late singer’s final words about what he described as his last ever show and traces the health problems that reshaped the final years of his life.
Directed by BAFTA winner Tania Alexander and produced in collaboration with the Osbourne family, the film is scheduled to stream on Paramount+ on Oct. 7. The documentary draws on interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon and their children Aimee, Kelly and Jack, and includes archival and behind-the-scenes footage of the singer at home, in the studio and onstage.
The film chronicles a February 2019 fall that left Osbourne hospitalised for weeks and marked a turning point in his ability to tour. Family members describe how the accident and a subsequent cascade of corrective surgeries forced him to cancel a two-and-a-half-year farewell tour. Contributors say his physical pain and a Parkinson’s diagnosis contributed to periods of depression and affected his daily life and work in the years that followed.
Interviews in the film include intimate recollections from his children. Aimee Osbourne reflects on his lengthy hospitalisation and the emotional blow of cancelling the tour, while Kelly Osbourne recounts accompanying her father to the studio each day and the ritual that helped him work through pain. Jack Osbourne characterises the 2020 album Ordinary Man as being less an Ozzy Osbourne record than a personal reckoning in which his father processed life, mortality and his changing identity as an artist.
The documentary examines the late-career musical revival that followed. It situates the 2019 collaboration "Take What You Want" with Post Malone — initiated by Kelly Osbourne and producer Andrew Watt and released in October 2019 — as a turning point that helped lift Ozzy from a deep low. The film also traces the making of the subsequent albums Ordinary Man (2020) and Patient Number 9 (2022), the latter of which won two Grammy Awards and contains music band members and collaborators say reflects a reflective phase in his songwriting.
Ozzy: No Escape From Now intersperses family testimony with accounts from fellow musicians and collaborators. The roster of contributors includes Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath; Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N’ Roses; Metallica’s Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield; Billy Idol; Maynard James Keenan of Tool; Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers; and long-time associates such as Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt, Billy Morrison, Tom Morello, Mike Inez and Billy Corgan.
The film captures moments from late in Osbourne’s performance career, including footage of his last-minute decision to play the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2022, an exclusive look at soundcheck from his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in October 2024, and preparations for — and the performance at — the Back To The Beginning show at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5, 2025. The documentary depicts the performer's continued engagement with music amid health struggles and the ways collaborators and family members supported him.
Filmmakers have said the project, originally planned for release while Osbourne was alive, now stands as a testament to his resilience, wit, determination and talent. The documentary, the producers say, aims to present a candid account of how chronic pain, surgical recovery and a degenerative diagnosis shaped his final creative period and public life.
Ozzy: No Escape From Now will be available to stream on Paramount+ beginning Oct. 7.