Disney has released the first official look at FX’s Sex Pistols limited series, Pistol, alongside announcing its upcoming streaming date on Disney Plus – and it all looks suitably revolutionary.
Based on the legendary punk rock band’s guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir, the show has some serious pedigree, including an Oscar-winning director in Danny Boyle.
Fans will be pleased to know we don’t have long to wait to watch it, as the series is set to debut on Disney Plus in the UK and Ireland and Hulu in the US on May 31.
Even better, all six episodes will drop at once on the premiere date so you can binge the show to your heart’s content.
Alongside the premiere details, Disney also shared two pictures of its rock and roll cast in character, following a few leaking from the set during what seemed to be a suitably rambunctious shoot last year.
The first shows Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Anson Boon as John Lyndon – also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten – Toby Wallace as Steve Jones and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, as the Sex Pistols appear to negotiate at an early days gig, surrounded by their equipment.
In the second, a recreation of a real-life photo, Lees is absent as Matlock but Louis Partridge is stealing focus in Sid Vicious’ black leather jacket, curled lip in place, standing with bandmates Lyndon, Jones and Cook outside a Sex Pistols tour bus.
The image shows a developed look for the band too, with Lyndon in a striking blue check suit and Jones in a Sex Pistol T-shirt and cowboy hat, while Cook wears white creeper shoes and an aviator jacket.
Pistol was created and written by Craig Pearce from Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, and also stars Game Of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan.
The star has been seen in character and also out and about with bleached eyebrows previously, as the real-life Jordan, who acted as consultant on the series, told Metro.co.uk that the star ‘felt liberated’ in the role while filming topless scenes.
New real-life couple Talulah Riley and Thomas Brodie-Sangster also star as iconic designer, and now Dame, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, while Sydney Chandler and Emma Appleton feature as Chrissie Hynde and Nancy Spungen, respectively.
The series promises to guide viewers ‘through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music’.
If that doesn’t reel in, we don’t know what will.
Pistol also promises to cover in great detail the antics and anarchy of a band who shook the establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
Pistol premieres on Disney Plus on May 31.
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