The first-ever fully authorised Fleetwood Mac documentary is in the works

Frank Marshall, the director behind documentaries about icons like The Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Carole King and James Taylor, is putting together the first fully authorised documentary about Fleetwood Mac.

“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about,” he told Deadline. 

“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.”

The film, which has yet to be titled, will feature interviews from the band's surviving members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, as well as archival footage from Christine McVie, who passed away this month in 2022. 

It will explore the group's beginnings in the mid-70s, rise to fame, and 50-plus-year roller coaster of success and personal struggles. (Just weeks ago, Stevie said “I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances," in an interview.)

Although this is the first project authorised by the band, their legacy has inspired pieces of fiction like the 2019 novel Daisy Jones and the Six. 

The book was famously turned into a television miniseries in 2023, which Stevie admitted made her "emotional."

- Written by iHeart.com and republished here with permission