A new trailer for Pistol has finally emerged for the eagerly anticipated new television series from Danny Boyle, about the notorious Sex Pistols.
Based on the memoir of Steve Jones, the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist who helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain. Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol”, the limited series Pistol is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever. The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution is the band Sex Pistols – and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heartbreaking journey guides viewers through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
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The series will consist of six episodes with no word on if a second season is yet in the works. Danny Boyle is the award winning director behind such films as 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for Slumdog Millionaire.
The series was held up, as former Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten, took Steve Jones and Paul Cook to high court to try and prevent the series being made and using his music. Rotten lost the case and the series was given the greenlight to go ahead. In a ruling on Monday, Sir Anthony Mann found the pair were entitled to invoke “majority voting rules” against Rotten, or John Lydon as his birth certificate says, in relation to the use of Sex Pistols material in the series, under the terms of a band member agreement.
Pistol premiers on May 31st only on Hulu. Check out the trailer below!
