The first trailer for Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols series, Pistol, is here. Check it out below. The six-part FX series, which is set to arrive on Hulu on May 31, dramatizes the group’s rise in the mid-1970s. In the trailer, news footage from the era highlights the band’s status as riotous pranksters and antagonists of the British institution, with Johnny Rotten (Anson Boon) and a wild-eyed Sid Vicious (Louis Partridge) at the helm. The book is based on Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol, the 2017 memoir of guitarist Steve Jones, played in the series by Toby Wallace.
Rounding out the cast are Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit) as manager Malcolm McLaren, Westworld’s Talulah Riley as fellow punk mastermind Vivienne Westwood, and Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams as the late, beloved punk figure Jordan, who died yesterday. Craig Pearce created and wrote the series.
Last year, John Lydon tried unsuccessfully to block the series. When the band took him to court, licensing rights were granted, and Lydon’s “hostile and unflattering” portrayal as “the annoying little brat with the great bone structure who’s always asking for more” (as his lawyer put it) was not deemed a legal breach.
