FX has ordered “Pistol,” a six-episode limited series about iconic British punk rock band The Sex Pistols. “Trainspotting” and “Slumdog Millionaire” helmer Danny Boyle is slated to direct.
“Moulin Rouge” scribe Craig Pearce created the series and wrote the episodes with Frank Cottrell Boyce based on guitarist and band co-founder Steve Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy”.
The series will center on co-founder Jones, dubbed a “charming illiterate kleptomaniac” in the press release, in the mid-1970s. Jones went from living on West London’s council estates to the famed boutique Sex – one of the early centers of punk culture in London.
The series, which will show us the band’s meteoric rise and fall, hails from FX Productions and Wiip. Toby Wallace (“Babyteeth,” “The Society”) plays Jones alongside Anson Boon (“Crawl,” “1917”) as frontman Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge (“Enola Holmes”) as bass player Sid Vicious and Jacob Slater as drummer Paul Cook.
Also starring are Maisie Williams punk icon Jordan, Sydney Chandler as future Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde, Fabien Frankel as original band member Glen Matlock, Dylan Llewellyn as Wally Nightingale, and Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen.
Filming is slated to begin in March. Boyle previously worked with FX on the limited series “Trust” about the Getty kidnapping.
Source: The Live Feed
