TO A heady soundtrack of the Rolling Stones’ early hits, from Little Red Rooster, to Paint it Black and Ruby Tuesday, the birth of the band is to be recreated in a £5m movie to be shot next year.

Rolling Stoned, based on the memoirs of Andrew Loog Oldham, the band’s Svengali-type manager, and directed by Julien Temple, who made The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle about the Sex Pistols, it will fuse fact and rock fictions, interweaving dramatic recreations with archive footage.

Sir Mick Jagger’s son, James, 21, will be asked to play his father, who was 19 when the Stones began making hits in the early 1960s.

His parents’ acting appearances - Jagger in the 1970 London gangster film Performance and Jerry Hall on stage as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate - got mixed reviews, but James’s stage debut this year was well received.

“If you’re trying to examine Mick Jagger, what could be better than someone coded with the Jagger gene,” said Peter Martin, of Surreal Films, who is joint producer of the film with Andrew Melchior. “If you’re looking for a young Mick Jagger and a young Keith Richards, I think the first place to look is in their own families.”

James’s siblings include Jade (daughter of Bianca Jagger), who has been a jewellery designer for Garrard, and Elizabeth, who is a successful model.

Jagger’s songwriting partner, Keith Richards, has four children - including Marlon, a photographer and graphic designer whose mother is Anita Pallenberg, the Italian-born model and actress. Richards also two daughters, Theodora and Alexandra, from his marriage to the model Patti Hansen.

Martin said: “There’s a whole young crew today that have taken their look and their style from the Stones. If you go into the Hawley Arms in Camden [north London], it actually looks like it’s still 1966 from some angles. That’s going to be part of our approach - to people the film with modern icons. We want our recreated scenes to look like archive material that has just been found.”

James Jagger’s agent and a spokesman for the Rolling Stones declined to comment on the plans although a source said Sir Mick was unlikely to support the idea of casting his offspring.

Loog Oldham first encountered the band in the spring of 1963. He said later: “I knew what I was looking at - it was sex and I was 48 hours ahead of the pack.” He managed the Rolling Stones until their business relationship broke down in 1967 and the script will draw on his two books, Stoned and Too Stoned. Reflecting this week, Loog Oldham described his years with the Stones as success “beyond anyone’s wildest dream”.

The film is set at a time when Brian Jones, who died in 1969 aged 27, was still at the heart of the band. Their circle included the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the singer Marianne Faithfull, Jagger’s girlfriend until 1970.

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