Steve Jones Danny Boyle Johnny Rotten Toby Wallace Britain Canada song singer band Steve Jones Danny Boyle Johnny Rotten Toby Wallace Britain Canada

‘Pistol’ Director Danny Boyle Days John Lydon’s Criticism Of Sex Pistols Drama Is ‘A Small Price To Pay’

Reading now: 182
etcanada.com

John Lydon has made it crystal clear that he’s not thrilled that the story of his one-time band, Sex Pistols, is being brought to the screen in the new Hulu series “Pistol”, airing in Canada on Disney+.

Speaking with The Sunday Times last year, the erstwhile Johnny Rotten slammed the project as the “most disrespectful s**t I’ve ever had to endure.” With the show set to make its debut, series director Danny Boyle is responding. READ MORE: John Lydon Blasts Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols Series: ‘The Most Disrespectful S**t I’ve Ever Had To Endure’ “If you’re going to get upset about that, you don’t understand the history of the group and the subsequent history post-group,” he says. “The discord is fundamental to it — it’s part of the energy that Malcolm [McLaren, the Sex Pistols’ manager)] clearly wanted to build from.

He takes an intemperance, an anger, a kind of resentment, a feeling of a chip on the shoulder, and then it extrapolates from there into the world through the music.

And it’s what gives the songs such bite, I think,” said the “Trainspotting” director in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “The big songs like ‘Anarchy…’ and ‘Pretty Vacant’ and ‘God Save the Queen,’ the bite in those songs, they’re nearly 50 years old, and it’s like oh my god, you still feel disturbed by feeling that directness in music,” Boyle added. ” Anyway, it’s a small price to pay, to be unpopular with John.

Read more on etcanada.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA