Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is helming a Sex Pistols limited series for FX

Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is set to direct a limited series about UK punk rock legends Sex Pistols for FX.

Boyle will direct and executive produce the six-part series, titled Pistol, which is based on Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Pistol stars Toby Wallace as Jones, Anson Boon as John Lydon, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Fabien Frankel as Glen Matlock, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen, and Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan.

“Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” says Boyle. “This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British street culture…where ordinary young people had the stage and vented their fury and their fashion…and everyone had to watch and listen…and everyone feared them or followed them. The Sex Pistols. At its center was a young charming illiterate kleptomaniac — a hero for the times — Steve Jones, who became in his own words, the 94th greatest guitarist of all time. This is how he got there.”

Production on Pistol is set to begin this March.

We recently spoke with author Paul Gorman about his massive new biography on Malcolm McLaren, who was instrumental in getting the group together and orchestrating their look and the shenanigans that would make them one of the most controversial acts of all time. Read our in-depth interview with Gorman discussing The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren here.