The Clash Gears Up For A Big-Screen Gig

Scribe Jez Butterworth, whose recent credits include “Fair Game” and “The Last Legion,” is joining forces with Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash to make a feature pic about the band entitled “London Calling.” Pic, which is skedded to lense in 2011, is produced by Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits through their shingle Ruby Film and Television. Butterworth is also producing alongside Ruby while Jones and Simonon are acting as advisors and exec producers, and have granted exclusive rights to the music. The story, which Butterworth is writing with the support of the recently shuttered U.K. Film Council, will follow how music bizzer Guy Stevens (who advised The Who early in their career) steered the punk band into the rock-n-roll hall of fame with their hit album “London Calling.”
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