Pistol, Danny Boyle’s series dedicated to the Sex Pistols arrives on May 31 on Disney+. Adapted from guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir titled Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistolthis series will therefore return to the rise of the famous British punk band.
” Pistol is a six-episode mini-series about the rock’n’roll revolution. The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution is called Sex Pistols – and at the center of this series is guitarist and founding member of the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones,” the platform announced in a statement relayed by the NME.
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“The hilarious, touching, and at times heartbreaking trajectory of Steve Jones guides us through the kaleidoscopic tale of three of the most epic, chaotic, and mucus-splattered years in music history,” the statement continued. “It’s the story of a bunch of pimply, loud, no-future working-class kids who punch a boring and corrupt system in the heart, threatening to bring down the government and change the music and culture in never. »
The realisation of Pistol was therefore entrusted to Danny Boyle while the writing returned to Craig Pearce to whom we owe the scripts of the great films of Baz Luhrmann that are Romeo + Juliet, red Mill and Gatsby the magnificent. On the casting side, the angry quartet is played by Toby Wallace (Steve Jones), Jacob Slater (Paul Cook), Anson Boon (John Lydon) and Louis Partridge (Sid Vicious).