Apple Original Films will distribute the first authorized documentary on Fleetwood Mac, which is being directed by Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, The Beach Boys). No release date has yet been announced.
“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about,” says Marshall, who will produce with White Horse Pictures’ Nicholas Ferrall and Jeanne Elfant Festa. “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.”
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“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,” adds Farrall.
The film will draw on never-before-soon footage, new interviews and archival clips from member Christine McVie, who died in 2022. It “will explore how the band’s trials and tribulations, personal resilience and musical dexterity combined to create songs that have not only stood the test of time but are indeed timeless masterpieces,” says the team.
It’s unclear to what level former guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham will participate, following his sudden 2018 ouster from the group. Fleetwood Mac subsequently toured without Buckingham for the first time in decades; he was replaced by Crowded House’s Neil Finn and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell.
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