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After telling the stories of everyone from The Beach Boys to The Bee Gees, Carole King and James Taylor, Frank Marshall has set up another high-profile music documentary at Apple — the first fully authorized doc on Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Fleetwood Mac.
In the film, which is currently untitled, band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reflect on their fortuitous meeting in 1974 and the uncompromising 50-plus-year history that’s followed, from their record-breaking recordings and tours — including never-before-seen footage, exclusive new interviews, and archival interviews of the late Christine McVie – through to today. The film 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 considered masterpieces.
Pic will take fans through the highs and lows of Fleetwood Mac’s career, illuminating the ingredients each member brought to the band’s uncommon alchemy — a musical union that sold more than 220 million records around the world. The documentary will explore what allowed this combination of artists to create singular musical work again and again, and what drew them back together and held them there when every possible pressure, both outside and inside the band, threatened to blow them apart.
“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about,” said Marshall in a statement on his latest project. “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.”
Reuniting The Kennedy/Marshall Company and White Horse Pictures following their work together on The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart for HBO and The Beach Boys for Disney+, the Fleetwood Mac documentary’s producers include Marshall produces through The Kennedy/Marshall Company, White Horse Pictures’ Nicholas Ferrall (The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.) and 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). White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann is exec producing with Kennedy/Marshall’s Tony Rosenthal, as well as Diamond Doc’s Mark Monroe, who also contributes to the project as a writer.
Commented Farrall of White Horse Pictures, “We are thrilled to continue our creative partnership with Frank and the talented team at Kennedy/Marshall. 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. And to do this with the support and reach of Apple is quite wonderful.”
The recipient of five Oscar nominations and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Marshall earlier this fall signed on to direct and produce a Barbra Streisand docuseries, to be distributed by Sony Music Vision in partnership with Columbia Records. Other recent documentaries from the director include Netflix’s Rather, on journalist Dan Rather, and Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name for Max. Also a prolific producer, his recent credits on that front include Music by John Williams, Twisters, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Jurassic World Dominion. He is repped by Ziffren Brittenham.
Fleetwood Mac is repped by IAG, Sanctuary Management, Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk, and Presse Peter.
