Showtime is planning a Stone Temple Pilots film. Kevin Sevener, a VP at the network, said ‘not a lot has been done about the band’ and that it will be ‘a compelling story.’ With STP’s history, that won’t be a hard promise to fulfill. From break ups, to side projects like Army of Anyone, to Chester Bennington taking over as the lead singer, the band has been through a lot. The fact that we lost both Chester and Scott Weiland and the band is still going with new lead singer Jeff Gutt is probably enough to fill a film on it’s own.
It sounds like Showtime is planning a few films like this that will focus on bands/music. See more at BroadcastingCable.com.
As for STP, they have their first album with Jeff Gutt behind the mic set for March 16th. Here’s one of the tracks from that album…