You can see the way the group was built, its architecture, and it allowed for a sense of chaos.” “You come in through a side door…almost like a Trojan horse, and then you're on the inside….
“It’s the most obvious thing,” says Boyle. “The Sex Pistols is an edifice that you can’t really approach because there’s such an electric fence of hostility around them-which they’ve created.”īut eventually, the Oscar winner, who directed Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire, cracked the case, basing his treatment on guitarist Steve Jones’s memoir, Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol.
“I thought, Well, that won’t work!“ he says. Danny Boyle had an immediate reaction when he was approached with the idea of making a film about the Sex Pistols.
