The Rolling Stones have made a huge money deal for a four-part biopic.
Frontman Sir Mick Jagger, 83, and guitarists Keith Richards, 82, and Ronnie Wood, 79, are said to have signed with 101 Studios.
They are best known for the TV programs Landman, Yellowstone and The Agency last month.
Earlier this year, Mick admitted he had been thinking about a biopic ‘a lot’, and would like an actor in his 20s to play him when he first rose to fame.
It comes as filming begins on Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopic, starring Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.
A source said: ‘The Rolling Stones story is coming to the big screen. The band likes what 101 Studios has done before and thinks they are in safe hands.
The Rolling Stones have signed a major deal for a blockbuster biopic about the band (L-R Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pictured in May)
Earlier this year, Mick (far right) admitted that he had been thinking about a biopic ‘a lot’, and that he would like an actor in his 20s to play him when he first rose to fame.
It comes as filming began on Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopic (photo L-R George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon)
“It’s still early, but the deal is done.”
They told The sun: ‘No casting has started. What the film will look and feel like, and what stories it will tell, is now being organized.”
Speaking to E Talk, MIck previously said: “I’ve thought about it a lot, and the problem with casting is that it’s the start of me wanting to be famous. I don’t want to ignore that part.
“I was only 19, 20, and what happens is they always play someone (who is) 32 as 19. I don’t want that, I want them to be in their 20s. At least people in their twenties.’
The 83-year-old rocker also wants a ‘relatively unknown actor’ to portray him in a film.
He added: ‘It would be a relatively unknown actor, it wouldn’t be a big star actor, on the verge of fame.
“They also have to have that energy and kind of innocence of the world of show business, of what’s going to happen to you and the madness and fun of it all.”
In June, he told GQ about a possible biopic: “Yes, it interests me. I don’t want to break it to you, but I know how I see it. There are many ways to make biopics.
“So when you make a biopic, you’re usually doing a small part of someone’s life that is bookended by other things.
‘Take the Bob Dylan film. You recreate the moment when Bob went electric. You should be thinking: what are you going to focus on? And where are your two years of interest?
‘I mean Bob Dylan was two years old, [the] One by James Brown that I produced was a little more.”
