John Lydon does not want Sex Pistols songs used in an upcoming biopic directed by Danny BoyleThe Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is locked in a court battle with his former bandmates after refusing to allow the group’s songs to be used in a planned TV series about the group. Lydon, widely known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, will not give permission for the punk band’s hits to be used in Pistol, a six-part miniseries about them directed by Danny Boyle, the filmmaker behind Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire. SponsoredThe show is based on the guitarist Steve Jones’s 2016 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol and was due to be broadcast on the Disney-owned FX channel next year. Anson Boon is set to play Lydon in the show MWE/GC IMAGES/GETTY IMAGESHowever, Lydon, 65, branded the programme a “disgrace”. In an interview with The Sunday Times last month, he claimed

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 15:33 UTC