Maverick British producer Stephen Woolley spent a decade developing his project about the mysterious death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones before deciding that he was too immersed in the material to let anyone else direct it.
The feature film Stoned (formerly known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones) is based on Who Killed Christopher Robin? by Terry Rawlings and two other books about the circumstances around the drowning death of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones.
Jones was initially the Stones' creative driving force, popular and charismatic, but by the late '60s, he was drinking too much and strung out on drugs. He was forced out of the band in 1969 and three weeks later was found dead in his swimming pool. Rawlings, through extensive research, asserts that not only was Jones murdered at his country home but that a vicious cover-up ensued. The author used new interviews to document Brian's ill-fated final days and hours and names his murderer.
Stoned is due to be released in 2006.