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The Rolling Stones have penned a huge money deal for a biopic.
Frontman Sir Mick Jagger, 83, and guitarists Keith Richards, 82, and Ronnie Wood, 79, are said to have inked a contract with 101 Studios.
They're best known for TV shows Landman, Yellowstone, and The Agency - last month.
Earlier this year, Mick admitted he had thought about a biopic 'a lot', and he is keen for an actor in their 20s to play him when he first shot to fame.
It comes as filming for the Sam Mendes' Beatles biopic commenced, which features Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.
A source said: 'The story of the Rolling Stones is coming to the big screen. The band love what 101 Studios have done before and think they’re in safe hands.
The Rolling Stones have signed a big money deal for a blockbuster biopic about the band (L-R Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pictured in May)
Earlier this year, Mick, (far right) admitted he had thought about a biopic 'a lot', and he is keen for an actor in their 20s to play him when he first shot to fame
It comes as filming for the Sam Mendes' Beatles biopic commenced, (pictured L-R George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon)
'It’s early days but the deal is done.'
They told The Sun: 'No casting has started. How the film will look and feel, and the stories it will tell, is being organised now.'
Speaking to E Talk, Mick previously said: 'I have thought about it, a lot, and the problem with casting is that I want the beginning of getting famous in there. I don’t wanna ignore that part.
'I was only 19, 20, and what happens is, they always cast someone (who is) 32 playing 19. I don’t want that, I want them to be in their 20s. At least in their 20s.'
The 83-year-old rocker also wants a 'pretty unknown actor' to portray him in a movie.
He added: 'It would be a pretty unknown actor, it wouldn’t be a big star actor, on the cusp of being famous.
'They’d have to have that energy and sort of innocence as well of the world of showbusiness of what’s going to happen to you and the madness and fun of it all.'
In June, he said to GQ about a potential biopic: 'Yeah, it interests me. I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it. There’s lots of ways of doing biopics.
'So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone's life bookended by some other stuff.
'Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric. You'd have to think, what are you going to zero in on? And where's your two years of interest?
'I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more.'
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