Inside Yesterday, Danny Boyle imagined a world where the Beatles never existed, but everything else was basically the same for some reason, and his next project will be the opposite: instead of a film about a world where a popular British rock band never existed, is gonna be a TV program about a world where a popular British punk band definitely it exists – specifically our real world and specifically the Sex Pistols. To put it in less unnecessarily complicated terms, Boyle is doing a limited FX series on the Sex Pistols, based on the memories of guitarist Steve Jones Lonely boy: tales of a sex pistol.
The show was announced in a press release yesterday, with Boyle explaining in a statement that the arrival of punk in British society was like “invading the world of The crown and Downton Abbey with his friends and shouting his songs and his fury for everything they stand for. ”This explicitly implies that Boyle’s program – entitled Gun– will be the antiCrown or Downton, which is quite exaggerated when it comes to TV shows about punk music. Like, those shows are stuffy or about royalty! This is about … being all malicious and rude. There will probably be profanity and colorful comments about the queen! Some Britons are already concerned about The crown giving viewers the wrong impression about royalty, so we can only imagine the drop of the monocle and the break of the cup of tea that will occur when suitable society is confronted with the image of some young Sex Pistols writing “God Save The Queen” in this FX series.
Gun will star Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Jacob Slater, Fabien Frankel, Dylan Llewellyn, Sydney Chandler, Emma Appleton and Maisie Williams (she is playing punk icon Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan).