Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is stepping behind the camera for a limited series based on Sex Pistols star Steve Jones’ memoir.Boyle will direct and executive produce Pistol, which has been created by Moulin Rouge!
screenwriter Craig Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce, while Toby Wallace will play punk icon Jones.Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has also signed on to play punk ‘It’ girl Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan, and Jones’ fellow Sex Pistols will be played by Anson Boon (John Lydon), Louis Partridge (Sid Vicious), Jacob Slater (Paul Cook), and Fabien Frankel (Glen Matlock).Pistol is inspired by Jones’ book, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol.
The rocker-turned-DJ will serve as an executive producer alongside Boyle and Pearce.“Imagine.
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