Artimus Pyle, the drummer during Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic years in the 1970s, announced plans to make a biopic on the band entitled Street Survivors: The True Story of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash last year.
The current band and the families of those killed in the 1977 plane crash are taking Pyle to court to try and stop the movie from being made.
Rossington and crew are citing a 1988 consent order that bars any individual member from telling a story that “purports to be the history of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band.”
As previously reported, Artimus Pyle announced his intention on making a biopic entitled Freebird (the band’s most iconic song), but changed it to Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash after he received a cease and desist order.