JULIEN TEMPLE - TEMPLE TO DIRECT SEX PISTOLS PANTO?

TEMPLE TO DIRECT SEX PISTOLS PANTO?

Filmmaker JULIEN TEMPLE has a new song-and-dance project on the horizon - a theatrical pantomime based on THE SEX PISTOLS. The director - who was behind the documentaries Sex Pistols Number 1 and The Filth And The Fury - insists the group are well-suited for the popular British stage genre, which incorporates song, dance and slapstick comedy into a family-friendly performance. He says, "I'm thinking of doing a pantomime of (The Sex Pistols documentary) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle with (frontman) John Lydon next year as well. I think he'd be great in a pantomime. You'd have to adapt something like (traditional pantomime) DICk Whittington to The Great Rock N Roll Swindle." "I don't know whether we'd get Malcolm (MCClaren, the band's estranged manager) to play The Big Bad Witch of whatever, but it's a funny idea anyway." The 53-year-old recently completed filming a DVD based on the punk legends' five-night stint of live concerts at London's Brixton Academy last November (07).