EXCLUSIVE: The Rolling Stones can’t get no satisfaction at FX.
A significant collection chronicling the band’s glory years has taken “a tumble” out of improvement with FX amid wider content material cuts at Disney, in keeping with the present’s producer.
Andy Harries, CEO of The Crown producer Left Financial institution Photos, mentioned he was “regrouping” on the present and having conversations about its future — each when it comes to a brand new dwelling and showrunner.
“It’s not in with FX [anymore] sadly, it did take a tumble out due to the cutbacks at Disney. It was simply too costly and too formidable for the rapid agenda,” Harries advised Deadline.
“John Landgraf was actually effusive concerning the scripts and ambition for the present however he simply didn’t really feel that he was going to have the ability to get it greenlit within the subsequent two years.”
Harries wouldn’t rule out returning to FX with the mission, however he’s exploring different choices for the present after the Stones permitted use of their music within the collection.
He added: “I’m having live-ish conversations. It actually wants a author with a selected imaginative and prescient for it. It wants a showrunner hooked up who’s acquired the time and the power and is completely absorbed by it.”
Deadline reported in 2020 that the collection was in improvement with FX, with Excessive Constancy creator Nick Hornby hooked up.
The present was set to give attention to the Stones’ glory years, from the band’s formation to 1972. This encompasses a run of hit albums together with Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Primary Avenue.
FX isn’t any stranger to biopics on iconic UK bands. Danny Boyle’s Intercourse Pistols collection Pistol premiered final yr, however has since been faraway from Hulu and Disney+ internationally.
