‘Who Killed Nancy?’ - The Ultimate Movie About Sex Pistols Sid Vicious?
The Sex Pistols were, and still are cult icons, and regarded as the forefathers of the punk music movement, particularly in the UK, but also around the world.
There have been a few movies over the years about the group, and one in particular, about Sid Vicious, the group’s legendary but ultimately tragic bassist, who died of a heroin overdose in 1979.
The 1986 release of Sid and Nancy, a biopic about Sid (real name John Simon Ritchie) and ex-girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who was stabbed the year before he died caused controversy at the time, and the untruths in the film still rankle with Sid’s mother Anne Beverley.
This is the woman who discovered her own son dead in bed in a New York hotel room, and had to deal with the consequences.
Ipso Facto films has now asked Vicious biographer Alan Parker to make and direct a new film called Who Killed Nancy?, which they hope will be “the ultimate Sid Vicious movie”.
“I have strong views on Sid And Nancy so I wanted to make the ultimate, last word movie. It will be 100 minutes of facts and at the end we’re going to turn round and let the audience be the jury.”
The thing is, this all happened a long time ago, and I’m not so sure there is the public appetite there for a new film about Vicious. The Sex Pistols are touring again, so that could help sell the film to audiences, but even I, as a Sex Pistols fan, am not really fussed about a new movie detailing the facts of that time.
Shooting on Who Killed Nancy? is scheduled to begin later this month.
8 Comments
December 9th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
this should be fantastic.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
yeah i would love to see “who killed Nancy” i am very interesting inthe sex pistols, but even more direct Sid Vicious
July 13th, 2008 at 12:50 am
bassist of legend world
November 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Not if Alan Parker is making it. The truth about Sid is very close to being known now, and Parker may have something to contribute, but he is not the appropriate choice for the director’s chair for any “definitive” telling of Sid’s story, because his own credibility is so poor. He never met id, never knew him, and never sought to go beyond the word of McLaren and Sid’s mother, who is - in fact - believed, for almost 30years by many of Sid’s closest friends, to be the person who gave him the lethal dose.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I agree with JR - Mr Parker is more concerned with making himself famous than telling any actual facts.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
JR says it best. I like the idea and I’m very interested in a movie based on fact. However, how does one even know whether its fact or not when its directed by a guy like Alan Parker.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
sid is a legend and always will be …….he was besotted with nancy and did not kill her ( there was a dude by the name of micheal who the finger points at ) sid wanted to be with nancy and his own mother spared her son of the torment of aving to face the courts etc and allow him to be with nancy once again r.i.p. sid.
February 13th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Sid was bassist for the sex pistol. good band. play well. Sid look like punk music
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