Stevie Nicks Says a Musical Biopic of Her Life Is Unlikely: ‘I Hate Them’

A slew of successful musical biopics has increased the demand for more onscreen stories about popular artists from the 20th century. And few artists seem better primed for a biopic than Stevie Nicks. Her long career of success and drama in Fleetwood Mac practically writes itself for the screen. According to Nicks, though, a musical biopic of her life doesn’t seem likely. Not only has she done too much, but she doesn’t particularly like the genre.

Stevie Nicks has been a working musician since high school

After displaying an innate vocal talent from an early age, Nicks began writing songs in high school. Here, she met a fellow student and future boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. The pair connected when they performed a song together, and Buckingham later invited Nicks to join his band as a singer.

The band, Fritz, found some success, but Nicks and Buckingham hoped to strike it big as a duo. They struggled to make their music careers work until Mick Fleetwood, drummer of the British blues band Fleetwood Mac, invited Buckingham, and eventually Nicks, to join. With Nicks and Buckingham, the band exploded to global success. After decades of performing with Fleetwood Mac and in her solo career, Nicks is the only woman who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.

She thinks a biopic is slightly unlikely

Given her illustrious career and the behind-the-scenes drama in Fleetwood Mac, many fans want nothing more than to see a biopic about Nicks. She doesn’t know if it would work out.

“It would be such a long movie. You know what I mean?” she told Tim McGraw on Beyond The Influence Radio, per Louder Sound. “That would be the problem, because what I just told you, I have like thousands of more hours that I could tell you stories that would just make you laugh so hard.”

Though she doesn’t know if a film is possible, Nicks is open to the idea of a book series.

“If I could get it into a book, it would be like Twilight,” she explained. “It would be like four books. And then, if I thought that was great, then I might say, ‘Well, maybe we could do like a four-part thing.’”

According to Nicks, she’s far more open to the idea of sharing her life story than she used to be.

“I used to say, ‘Absolutely no,’ not writing a book, not making a movie, and don’t ask me to make a musical,” she said. “I hate them. Hate them. Hate them, except for Wicked. Wicked is my favorite.”

So, while a book series and, possibly, film series based on the books are possible, it seems as though Nicks has completely closed the door to a musical biopic.

Stevie Nicks thinks her life story would upset the people she knows

Though Nicks is gearing up to share her life story, audiences may have to wait a while for it. According to the Fleetwood Mac singer, her memoir may be a bit too incendiary to share right now.

“The world is not ready for my memoir, I guarantee you,” she told Billboard. “All of the men I hung out with are on their third wives by now, and the wives are all under 30. If I were to write what really happened between 1972 and now, a lot of people would be very angry with me.”

She explained that she wants to wait until everyone in her life is too old to care about what she writes.

“I am loyal to a fault,” she said. “And I have a certain loyalty to these people that I love because I do love them, and I will always love them. I cannot throw any of them under the bus until I absolutely know that they will not care.”

While the tell-all Stevie Nicks story may be a long way away, it sounds like it’s worth waiting for.