Danny Boyle is to direct a six-part television drama about the Sex Pistols – to be titled Pistol – based on guitarist Steve Jones’s 2016 memoir, Lonely Boy. In a statement, Boyle described the Sex Pistols’ emergence in the mid-70s as the moment that British society and culture changed for ever. Sex Pistols in 1977 … from left, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones. In 2019, he disavowed a prospective Sex Pistols biopic made by Starlight Films. “For the avoidance of doubt this film would be unauthorised, unofficial, and not endorsed by Sex Pistols,” he tweeted.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2021 15:30 UTC