FX’s Pistol delves into the lives of Sex Pistols founding member/guitarist Steve Jones and his bandmates over the course of six episodes. Today, FX announced the limited series will premiere on Hulu on May 31, 2022 in the U.S.*, with all six episodes available at once for binge-watching.
Toby Wallace stars as Steve Jones, Anson Boon plays John Lydon, Christian Lees is Glen Matlock, and Louis Partridge channels Sid Vicious. The cast also includes Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Talulah Riley as Vivienne Westwood, Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Malcolm McLaren.
Series creator Craig Pearce wrote Pistol, based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, and Oscar winner Danny Boyle directs all six episodes. Pearce, Boyle, Tracey Seaward, Steve Jones, Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Paul Lee, and Hope Hartman executive produce.
FX released the following description of the limited series:
Pistol is a six-episode limited series about a rock and roll revolution. The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional, and at times heartbreaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic, and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, this is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
* – Viewers in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore can watch the series on Disney+.
