Pistol: Hulu’s Danny Boyle-directed Sex Pistols limited series premiere date announced

FX’s Danny Boyle-directed Sex Pistols limited series focusing on guitarist Steve Jones finally has a release date. Pistol bows on May 31 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Based on Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, Boyle’s limited series was created and written by Craig Pearce. What’s the limited series is all about? Check out the official logline below to find out:

“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.”

Hulu’s Sex Pistols limited series stars Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Anson Boon as John Lydon, Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, 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.

The six-episode limited series will be executive produced by Boyle, Pearce, Tracey Seaward, Steve Jones, Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Paul Lee, and Hope Hartman and hails from FX Productions.

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