According to a report from The Journal, a Newcastle–based film producing company has been given some investment to go towards an upcoming documentary titled Who Killed Nancy?.

The film will focus on Nancy Spungen, the ill–fated girlfriend of notorious Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, and the circumstances that led to her death. In 1986, director Alex Cox producers a fictionalized documentary of those events in the critically acclaimed film, Sid & Nancy. Though the film was well–received by critics, John Lydon had harsh words for the film noting:

To me this movie is the lowest form of life. I honestly believe that it celebrates heroin addiction. It definitely glorifies it at the end when that stupid taxi drives off into the sky. That's such nonsense. The squalid New York hotel scenes were fine, except they needed to be even more squalid. All of the scenes in London with the Pistols were nonsense. None bore any sense of reality

The chap who played Sid, Gary Oldman, I thought was quite good. But even he only played the stage persona as opposed to the real person. I don't consider that Gary Oldman's fault because he's a bloody good actor. If only he had the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the man. I don't think they ever had the intent to research properly in order to make a seriously accurate movie. It was all just for money, wasn't it? To humiliate somebody's life like that – and very successfully – was very annoying to me.

The final irony is that I still get asked questions about it. I have to explain that it's all wrong. It was all someone else's fucking fantasy, some Oxford graduate who missed the punk rock era. The bastard.

No word on whether the producers, Ipso Facto Films will be consulting with Mr.Lydon this time.