Fleetwood Mac: The Chain
Legendary pop group Fleetwood Mac will be getting their first-ever fully authorized documentary from Apple Original Films. The documentary will be titled Fleetwood Mac: The Chain and the film will feature the band telling their story in their own words. Fleetwood Mac: The Chain comes from five-time Academy Award nominee and Irving G. Thalberg Award winner Frank Marshall (director of Arachnophobia) and is produced by award-winning The Kennedy/Marshall Company and White Horse Pictures.
Apple Original Films has announced that the incredibly in-depth documentary will make its global debut on Apple TV on Friday, January 29, 2027.
The movie was made by bringing together voices, memories and perspectives of Grammy Award-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
Doc Details
The official description reads,
The film’s title reflects the profound significance of Fleetwood Mac’s hit “The Chain,” which embodies a family forged by a shared passion and, notably, is the only song on their album “Rumours”credited to all five members. The song perfectly captures the complicated yet enduring bond at the heart of Fleetwood Mac, and its iconic lyrics became a powerful motif for the respect and connection that persisted through the tumultuous odyssey of the band’s rise to superstardom. The film’s premiere coincides with the 50th anniversary of the release of the Grammy award-winning “Rumours.”
Following their fortuitous meeting in 1974, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reflect on their uncompromising 50-plus-year history, from their record-breaking recordings and tours — including never-before-seen footage and exclusive new interviews — through to today. The film will explore how the band’s trials and tribulations, personal resilience, and musical dexterity combined to create enduring masterpieces. It will take fans through the highs and lows of their brilliant career, illuminating the exceptional ingredients each member brought to the band’s uncommon alchemy — a musical union that sold more than 220 million records worldwide. The documentary will reveal 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.
Director Frank Marshall produces the doc through The Kennedy/Marshall Company with White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair (known for The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan), Nicholas Ferrall (known for Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A., Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery) and Jeanne Elfant Festa (whose work includes The Apollo, Lucy and Desi), and Kennedy/Marshall’s Aly Parker (whose resume features The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, The Space Race). White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann also executive produces with Kennedy/Marshall’s Tony Rosenthal. Diamond Docs’ Mark Monroe serves on the project as writer and executive producer.
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