‘The Crown’ Producer Shops Rolling Stones Series After It Falls Victim To Disney Cuts At FX

Jake Kanter

19 December 2023 at 10:45 am·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: The Rolling Stones can’t get no satisfaction at FX.

A major series chronicling the band’s glory years has taken “a tumble” out of development with FX amid wider content cuts at Disney, according to the show’s producer.

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Andy Harries, CEO of The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, said he was “regrouping” on the show and having conversations about its future — both in terms of a new home and showrunner.

“It’s not in with FX [anymore], unfortunately,” Harries told Deadline. “It did take a tumble out because of the cutbacks at Disney. It was just too expensive and too ambitious for the immediate agenda.”

He added, “John Landgraf was really effusive about the scripts and ambition for the show, but he just didn’t feel that he was going to be able to get it greenlit in the next two years.”

Harries would not rule out returning to FX with the project, but he is exploring other options for the show after the Stones permitted use of their music in the series.

“I’m having live-ish conversations,” he said. “It really needs a writer with a specific vision for it. It needs a showrunner attached who’s got the time and the energy and is totally absorbed by it.”

Deadline reported in 2020 that the series was in development with FX, with High Fidelity author Nick Hornby attached.

The show was set to focus on the Stones’ glory years, from the band’s formation through 1972. This encompasses a run of hit albums including Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street.

FX is no stranger to docuseries on iconic UK bands. Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols series Pistol premiered last year, but has since been removed from Hulu and Disney+ internationally.

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