Fleetwood Mac to Receive First Authorized Documentary

Fleetwood Mac will obtain their first approved documentary, with filmmaker Frank Marshall directing the yet-untitled venture for Apple, Deadline stories.

The movie, which doesn’t but have a launch date, will embody new interviews with surviving Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, together with new and archival interviews with Christine McVie, who died in 2022.

These interviews and extra, beforehand unseen footage will chronicle Fleetwood Mac’s 50-plus-year profession, which turned some of the profitable and legendarily risky in rock historical past. Their private {and professional} lives had been inextricably linked, and blockbuster triumphs comparable to Fleetwood Mac and the diamond-selling Rumours had been accompanied by romantic turmoil, substance abuse and all different method of dysfunction.

Fleetwood Mac’s story has already served as inspiration for a number of works of music-related fiction, together with Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel Daisy Jones & the Six, which was become an Amazon miniseries in 2023. The official band documentary is in succesful fingers with Marshall, whose current directorial credit embody The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Damaged Coronary heart (2020), Carole King & James Taylor: Simply Name Out My Identify (2022), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) and The Seashore Boys (2024).

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“I’m fascinated by how this unimaginable story of monumental musical achievement happened,” Marshall mentioned in an announcement on his newest endeavor. “Fleetwood Mac in some way managed to merge their typically chaotic and nearly operatic private lives into their very own story in actual time, which then turned legend. This shall be a movie in regards to the music and the individuals who created it.”