“It’s not in with FX anymore, unfortunately,” Harries told Deadline. “It did take a tumble out because of the cutbacks at Disney. It was just too expensive and too ambitious for the immediate agenda.”
He added, “John Landgraf was really effusive about the scripts and ambition for the show, but he just didn’t feel that he was going to be able to get it greenlit in the next two years.”
Harries has not ruled out returning to FX with the project, but he is exploring other options for the series after the Stones gave permission for their music to be used in the series.
“I’m having live-ish conversations,” he said. “It really needs a writer with a specific vision for it. It needs a showrunner attached who’s got the time and the energy and is totally absorbed by it.”
In 2020, news broke that the series was in development at FX, with High Fidelity author Nick Hornby attached.
The series would focus on the Stones' glory years, from the band's founding until 1972. This includes a string of hit albums, including Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street.
FX is no stranger to biopics about iconic British bands. Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols series Pistol premiered last year, but has since been removed internationally from Hulu and Disney+.
