Frank Marshall to helm single charting fifty years of the band
Apple TV+ is adding to its library of premium music documentaries with a feature-length single charting rock icons Fleetwood Mac.
The film is the first time the Hall of Fame-inducted band will share their story in their own words and will be helmed by Frank Marshall, the director behind HBO original The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and Disney+’s The Beach Boys.
Half a century on from the fortuitous meeting in 1974, the film will explore the record-breaking recordings and tours featuring never-before-seen footage of the band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
The as-yet untitled doc will also see exclusive interviews from the surviving band members reflecting on the fifty-plus-year history together, as well as archival interviews of the late Christine McVie.
It will chart explore how Fleetwood Mac’s trials and tribulations, personal resilience, and musical brilliance combined to create iconic songs that still have resonance with people today.
The film will be produced through Marshall’s The Kennedy/Marshall Company alongside White Horse Pictures, with Marshall and White Horse’s Nicholas Ferrall (The Beatles: Eight Days A Week, Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.), Jeanne Elfant Festa (The Apollo, Lucy and Desi), and Kennedy/Marshall’s Aly Parker (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, The Space Race) producing.
White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann exec produces with Kennedy/Marshall’s Tony Rosenthal. Diamond Doc’s Mark Monroe serves as writer and executive producer.
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.”
Ferrall said: “Fleetwood Mac are a musical phenomenon, their alchemy almost beyond comprehension. White Horse is grateful and humbled by the extraordinary opportunity to produce a documentary that dives deep into both the talents of each band member individually and the magic that is Fleetwood Mac as a whole.”
The film will join Apple TV+’s slate of high-end docs including Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me and Beastie Boys Story.
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