Trainspotting,
28 Days Later,
Slumdog Millionaire and the opening ceremony of the London Olympics â announced today that he is set to helm a six-part TV series focusing on the Sex Pistols and the bandâs almost three-year blaze of filth and scandal.
The series, which has been commissioned by American TV channel and Disney subsidiary FX, is based on the 2018 memoir
Lonely Boy: Tales Of A Sex Pistol by guitarist Steve Jones, but has been given the simpler title
Pistol. And, given the setting of the nascent punk scene, the cast announced so far is a whoâs who of late-1970s punk music. The Pistols themselves have been cast from among relative newcomers: actor Toby Wallace will play Jones, while John Lydon (ie Johnny Rotten), Sid Vicious, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will be played by Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Jacob Slater and Fabien Frankel respectively. Among the supporting cast, Viciousâ girlfriend Nancy Spungen will appear, as will Chrissie Hynde and origi