But the decision reported by Reuters ruled that Street Survivor: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash was more about the entire band’s legacy, rather than just Pyle’s story, and so the former drummer, as well as the production company involved, Cleopatra Records Inc., are now out a motion picture.
Apparently, the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd entered into a consent order in 1988 that would prevent anyone telling the band’s story without their approval.
Artimus Pyle had no such approval, so if the film’s story centered more on his portion of history, he’d have been in the clear.
Considering the level of involvement that Pyle had with the film could have made a convincing case for the film being more of a Pyle-centric affair.