1 day Ago By Jon Blistein
Filmmaker Frank Marshall will helm the project — which doesn’t have a release date yet — for Apple Fleetwood MacHerbert Worthington will finally get the official documentary treatment, with filmmaker Frank Marshall set to helm the authorized feature-length project for Apple. The film is currently untitled, and a release date has yet to be announced. The project is set to include new interviews with the four core surviving members of Fletwood Mac — Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie — as well as never-before-seen footage, and new and archival interviews with Christine McVie, who .
The film will find Fleetwood Mac reflecting on their more than five decades together, from their heyday in the Seventies up through the present. That story is, of course, already pretty famous — filled with personal strife, , feuds, friendships, , artistic excellence, rock & roll excess, and a catalog filled with some of the most of the 20th century. News of the documentary comes after the success of fictional projects such as the novel-turned-limited series and the Tony-winning play , which draw on Fleetwood Mac’s story.
In a statement, Marshall said, “I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about. Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real time, which then became legend. This will be a film about the music and the people who created it.
” Marshall is a veteran director and producer with five Oscar nominations to his name, as well as a recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In recent years, he’s turned his attention to documentary filmmaking, with a particular focus on music.
Over the past few years he’s helmed projects including , , , and, most recently, From.
