TEMPLE TO DIRECT SEX PISTOLS PANTO

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JULIEN TEMPLE - TEMPLE TO DIRECT SEX PISTOLS PANTO?

Filmmaker JULIEN TEMPLE has a new song-and-dance project on the horizon - a theatrical pantomime based on THE SEX PISTOLS. The director - who was behind the documentaries Sex Pistols Number 1 and The Filth And The Fury - insists the group are well-suited for the popular British stage genre, which incorporates song, dance and slapstick comedy into a family-friendly performance. He says, "I'm thinking of doing a pantomime of (The Sex Pistols documentary) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle with (frontman) John Lydon next year as well. I think he'd be great in a pantomime. You'd have to adapt something like (traditional pantomime) DICk Whittington to The Great Rock N Roll Swindle." "I don't know whether we'd get Malcolm (MCClaren, the band's estranged manager) to play The Big Bad Witch of whatever, but it's a funny idea anyway." The 53-year-old recently completed filming a DVD based on the punk legends' five-night stint of live concerts at London's Brixton Academy last November (07).

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Sex Pistols Stars To Be Turned Into Pantomime
Complete with wicked witch...




Julien Temple, the director responsible for the Sex Pistols documentary ‘The Great Rock & Roll Swindle’, has revealed that he hopes to turn the project into a pantomime.

Temple said that he wants John Lydon will star in the production, which would be an adaptation of Dick Whittington.

“I don’t know whether we’d get [former Sex Pistols manager] Malcolm [McClaren] to play The Big Bad Witch of whatever, but it’s a funny idea anyway,” he explained.

Temple also told 6Music that he has just finished the production on a DVD about bands recent five-night residency at the Brixton Academy in London.

Describing them as a “national treasure”, he defended the veteran band’s decision to play the gigs.

“They make a pantomime - a psycho-panto - out of the event,” he said.

Speaking about his future plans, Temple said that he hopes to begin a project about The Kinks this year.

“I used to go and watch them drink as a school kids,” he said. “I’d bunk off school over the other side of Hampstead Heath. You’d learn a lot just by watching The Kinks drink actually.”