The Rolling Stones have penned a deal for a biopic.
Band front man Sir Mick Jagger and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, are said to have inked a contract with 101 Studios, who are best known for TV shows Landman, Yellowstone, and The Agency.
A source told The Sun newspaper, “The story of the Rolling Stones is coming to the big screen. The band love what 101 Studios have done before and think they’re in safe hands. It’s early days but the deal is done.”
“No casting has started. How the film will look and feel, and the stories it will tell, is being organised now,” they added.
Earlier this year, Mick admitted he had thought about a biopic “a lot” and he is keen for an actor in their 20s to play him when he first shot to fame.
Speaking to E Talk, he said, “I have thought about it, a lot, and the problem with casting is that I want the beginning of getting famous in there. I don’t wanna ignore that part.”
“I was only 19, 20, and what happens is, they always cast someone (who is) 32 playing 19. I don’t want that, I want them to be in their 20s. At least in their 20s,” he explained.
The 83-year-old rocker also wants a “pretty unknown actor” to portray him in a movie, saying, “It would be a pretty unknown actor, it wouldn’t be a big star actor, on the cusp of being famous.”
“They’d have to have that energy and sort of innocence as well of the world of showbusiness of what’s going to happen to you and the madness and fun of it all,” Mick further mentioned.
In June, he said to GQ about a potential The Rolling Stones biopic, “Yeah, it interests me. I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it. There’s lots of ways of doing biopics. So, most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff.”
“Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric. You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on? And where’s your two years of interest? I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more,” Sir Mick Jagger said at that time.
