Directed by Danny Boyle - the Academy Award-winning director of “Trainspotting” and “Slumdog Millionaire” – the project is based on a 2017 memoir by guitarist Steve Jones entitled “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol.”
The project stars Toby Wallace as Jones, Anson Boon as Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, with Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit) portraying manager Malcolm McLaren and Talulah Riley (Westworld) playing punk design icon Vivienne Westwood.
“Pistol” is also set to air on Disney+ in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Inspired by New York bands the Ramones and the New York Dolls, among others, the Sex Pistols formed in London in 1975 and helped to propel the UK punk scene through a series of four singles and one studio album, 1977’s “Never Mind The Bollocks…Here’s The Sex Pistols”, before disbanding just three months after its release.
See also:
Sex Pistols announce new compilation The Original Recordings
Sex Pistols biopic series Pistol to premiere on Hulu
Johnny Rotten comments on legal battle over Sex Pistols song rights
Sex Pistols members win legal battle against Johnny Rotten over song rights
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