Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Chapter Told In ‘No Escape from Now’ Documentary Coming Soon To Paramount+

On October 7, 2025, Paramount+ will premiere Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape from Now.  Produced with the full cooperation of the Osbourne family, No Escape from Now was initially intended as an inside look at Ozzy’s road to recovery and return to the stage. In the wake of the legendary singer’s death on July 10, 2025, it has already become one of the most highly anticipated music documentaries of the year, serving as a fitting tribute to an artist who had a profound impact on heavy metal.

Film production started in February 2019, when Ozzy was forced to postpone his previously announced farewell tour after suffering a severe fall at home. While it might have been another health scare to add to a long list, it had major consequences and left him hospitalized for several weeks, damaging his health for good. The documentary follows the aftermath of the incident and describes how one mistake can trigger a series of corrective operations, mobility issues, chronic pain, and the degenerative impact of Parkinson’s disease. No Escape from Now starts at the point that Ozzy’s life turned from bright to dark and makes the present his starting point rather than a larger than lifestyle past.

In the years leading up to his passing, Ozzy had to face a slow and painful decline, but music remained the only constant. The documentary puts a special emphasis on the recording process for Ordinary Man in 2020 and Patient Number 9 two years later with producer Andrew Watt. Both albums were heralded as a creative comeback for the singer, but also gave him a sense of purpose during a period of life that might have otherwise been defined by physical pain and depression. No Escape from Now also gives fans an inside look at Ozzy’s creative process and moments of vulnerability as he found solace and salvation in his craft.

The documentary also includes artists and musicians that he has inspired over the years, representing the full breadth of the heavy music landscape. Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi, Slash and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses, Metallica’s James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo, as well as Billy Idol, Tom Morello, Maynard James Keenan, Billy Corgan and more discuss their memories of Ozzy, and what he meant to them.

The culmination of the film is, of course, Ozzy’s final show, Back to the Beginning, which was played at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5, 2025 just weeks before his passing. The Prince of Darkness returned to the stage in his home city for one last time. For this momentous concert, the documentary not only captures rehearsals and preparations, but also the physical struggle to be back in front of the fans, decades after Ozzy had first come to prominence as the “Madman of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Yet, there was also an element of not knowing whether Ozzy would actually make it to the stage after all. 

Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape from Now was not originally intended as a posthumous tribute. Much of the footage was shot while he was alive and includes interviews in which he spoke openly about his hopes and fears about the future and the will to live. In this sense, it presents something of an unfiltered reality, giving the film the quality of a documentary, but also the immediacy of a video diary of someone coming to terms with his own mortality. Alongside this, his posthumous memoir, Last Rites, written with music journalist and best-selling author Joel McIver, will be published in the same week on October 9, 2025.