FX Orders Six-Episode Restricted Collection from Academy Award(R) Successful Director Danny Boyle PISTOL &
FX Orders Six-Episode Restricted Collection from Academy Award(R) Successful Director Danny Boyle
PISTOL
Pistol Is Primarily based on Intercourse Pistols’ Guitarist Steve Jones’ Memoir
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Intercourse Pistol
Collection Was Created by Govt Producer/Author Craig Pearce,
Boyle Is Govt Producer and Director, and Govt Produced by wiip
Pistol Stars Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Jacob Slater, Fabien Frankel, Dylan Llewellyn, Maisie Williams, Sydney Chandler and Emma Appleton
LOS ANGELES and LONDON, January 11, 2021 – FX has ordered Pistol, a six-episode restricted collection concerning the legendary Intercourse Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, it was introduced in the present day by Nick Grad, President, Unique Programming, FX Leisure.
Primarily based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Intercourse Pistol, the collection from Academy Award(R)-winner Danny Boyle, who may also function Govt Producer and director, was created by Craig Pearce and written by Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Jones, Boyle and Pearce function Govt Producers alongside Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Tracey Seaward, Paul Lee, Hope Hartman and wiip. Boyle is represented by WME and Sue Rogers of Unbiased. The collection is produced by FX Productions and is about to start manufacturing on March 7.
“It is nice to be again in enterprise with Danny Boyle, an distinctive artist answerable for so many nice function movies and TV collection,” stated Grad. “Steve Jones was on the heart of the storm that shook the rock institution and we’re thrilled to have Danny and the remainder of the inventive crew inform his story as a member of considered one of music’s most infamous bands – the Intercourse Pistols.”
“Think about breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey together with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury in any respect they signify,” stated Boyle. “That is the second that British society and tradition modified without end. It’s the detonation level for British road tradition…the place abnormal younger individuals had the stage and vented their fury and their trend… and everybody needed to watch & pay attention… and everybody feared them or adopted them. The Intercourse Pistols. At its heart was a younger charming illiterate kleptomaniac – a hero for the occasions – Steve Jones, who grew to become in his personal phrases, the 94th best guitarist of all time. That is how he acquired there.”
“The Intercourse Pistols modified music without end and Danny Boyle is the right director to inform Steve Jones’ story fueled by uncooked creativity and destruction,” stated Paul Lee, CEO wiip. “We’re thrilled to be making this with our pals at FX.
Anchored by Jones’ memoir, which presents a captivating new perspective on considered one of rock’s best ever tales, Pistol strikes from West London’s council estates, to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s infamous Kings Highway SEX store, to the worldwide controversy that got here with the discharge of By no means Thoughts the Bollocks, which is ceaselessly listed as one of the influential albums of all time. Their single “God Save the Queen” was banned by the BBC and reached No 1 on the UK’s NME chart, however appeared at Quantity 2 on the Official UK Singles chart, resulting in accusations that the track was purposely stored off the highest spot. For the one time in chart historical past, the monitor was listed as a clean, to keep away from offence to the monarchy.
Pistol stars Toby Wallace (Babyteeth, Acute Misfortune) as Steve Jones, Anson Boon (Crawl, 1917, Blackbird) as John Lydon, Louis Partridge (Enola Houses, Medici) as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook dinner, Fabien Frankel (The Serpent, NYPD Blue) as Glen Matlock, Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Ladies) as Wally Nightingale, Sydney Chandler (Do not Fear Darling) as Chrissie Hynde, Emma Appleton (The Witcher, Traitors) as Nancy Spungen, and Maisie Williams (Sport of Thrones) as punk icon Jordan.
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