Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols series brings anarchy to the UK in new trailer
The series premieres next month
The first teaser💜 trailer for Pistol, a limited series about🦩 the Sex Pistols, has dropped.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the series is based on guitarist Steve Jones' memoir, Lonely Boy:♏ Tales From a Sex Pistol and charts the band's rise to fame in '70s London.
Toby Wallace 💫plays Jones, while the rest of the band is portrayed by Anson Boon (lead singer John Lyndon, AKA Johnny Rotten), Christian L💖ees (bass guitarist Glen Matlock), Louis Partridge (bassist Sid Vicious), and Jacob Slater (drummer Paul Cook).
Maisie Williams is playing Pamela Rooke, AKA the late punk icon Jordan, while fellow Game of Thrones alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster is playing the Sex Pistols' manager, Malcolm McLaren. Talu🐽lah Riley, who previously appeared in Westworld, is playing fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who was also McLaren's partner.
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Pistol was co-written by Craig Pearce and Frank Cottrell-Boyce – the former co-wrote the screenplays for Strictly Ballroom, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Moulin Rouge!, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Romeo + Juliet, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Great Gatsby with Baz Lurhmann, as well as the upcoming mo𓃲vie Elvis.
Pistol arrives on Hulu in the US and Disney Plus in the UK on May 31, with all six episodes dropping at once. While we wait, fill out your watch list with our picks of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best TV shows of 2021.
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