by FilmInk Staff
Five-time Academy Award nominee and Irving G. Thalberg winner Frank Marshall directs the film, set to premiere on Friday, 29 January 2027
@filminkApple Original Films unveils title and release date (29 January 2027) for first-ever fully authorised Fleetwood Mac documentary, “Fleetwood Mac: The Chain”
For the first time ever, Fleetwood Mac is telling their story in their own words in Apple Original Films’ fully authorised documentary “Fleetwood Mac: The Chain,” which will make its debut on Apple TV on Friday, 29 January 2027. The documentary, directed by five-time Academy Award nominee and Irving G. Thalberg winner Frank Marshall and produced by award-winning The Kennedy/Marshall Company and White Horse Pictures, offers fans a definitive and unprecedented look at Fleetwood Mac’s story, 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.
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 through The Kennedy/Marshall Company with White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair (“The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years,” “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan”), Nicholas Ferrall (“Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.,” “Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery”) and Jeanne Elfant Festa (“The Apollo,” “Lucy and Desi”), and Kennedy/Marshall’s Aly Parker (“The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” “The Space Race”). White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann executive produces with Kennedy/Marshall’s Tony Rosenthal. Diamond Docs’ Mark Monroe serves as writer and executive producer.
“Fleetwood Mac: The Chain“ joins the award-winning slate of Apple Original documentary films, including Academy Award-nominated documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light,” Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim’s “STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” which swept the Critics Choice Documentary Awards with five wins, alongside four Emmy Award wins; Emmy Award-nominated “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” a uniquely raw and intimate documentary spanning her six-year journey into a new light; and, Emmy Award-nominated “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces,” featuring legendary writer, producer, director, actor and comedian Steve Martin, among many others.
