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Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones pose for the media ahead of their Australian tour at Adelaide Oval on October 23, 2014 in Adelaide, Australia.Morne de Klerk/Getty Images

Song credits won't be the latest place to feature Mick Jagger's name. Instead, look to upcoming films and TV shows.

The Rolling Stones frontman has been busy producing projects, from this year's James Brown biopic Get on Up to a not-yet-titled HBO series directed by Martin Scorsese.

Jagger is also behind the HBO documentary Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, which debuts Monday (9 p.m. Eastern Time). The rock icon said he was asked to produce the documentary before the film.

"I was really interested, but I was kind of a bit documentary-ed out at that point," the 71-year-old said with a laugh, explaining that he was asked to produce Mr. Dynamite around the time he finished working on the 2012 Stones documentary, Crossfire Hurricane. "It's very time-consuming … but I said, 'Yeah and I'd really like to do the documentary.' Then I woke up the next morning and thought a feature film would be a great idea."

Jagger asked Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney to work on the documentary, which takes an overarching look at the Godfather of Soul's life. Brown died in 2006, at 73. "He was such a big influence on all kinds of music. He was influential on performers that came later like Michael Jackson, Prince and then the beginning of hip-hop and so forth. But he was also influential [on] every band, every rock band – [they] didn't necessarily play all James Brown numbers, but we all knew them," Jagger said.

Gibney, whose credits include the 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, said he enjoyed collaborating with Jagger on Mr. Dynamite. "I heard some things that made me nervous, but I had a great time. He's a good producer," Gibney said. "I just heard rumbles … but I didn't find that to be the case. Just the opposite."

Jagger has a few other music-related projects on the go. "I have been asked to be involved in producing a movie on an adolescent Elvis … so that's in the works. And I'm doing a series on HBO which is very much music-orientated. It's fictional drama. The lead character is the owner of a record company and it's about his life."

Jagger's other upcoming production projects include the films Tabloid and The Tiny Problems of White People, with Colin Firth.

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