The life story of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis will make its way to the big screen. According to reports, Universal Pictures has obtained the rights to adapt Kiedis’ bestselling 2004 memoir Scar Tissue into a movie.
Deadline reports that the movie is still in early development. The details are scarce, but the project is expected to see Kiedis and RHCP’s manager Guy Oseary serving as producers alongside Brian Grazer, who is known for producing Eminem’s semi-biopic 8 Mile.
This isn’t the first time that Scar Tissue is set for adaptation. Back in 2008, Kiedis tried to get the memoir adapted into a TV show for HBO. The series even got a pilot and a premiere date in 2010 but eventually didn’t get picked up by the network.
A second attempt followed in 2011, when FX acquired the rights for the series with the intention of focusing on Kiedis’ early life. However, the project got stuck in development hell and never got off the ground.
Written by Kiedis and Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue is considered one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time. It follows Kiedis’ life until 2004, focusing on the relationship with his father, drug addiction, music career, and more.
Despite the book’s popularity, Kiedis has long regretted writing it but eventually changed his mind due to the positive effects it had on those who read it.
“I realized that the whole point of writing that book wasn’t for me, but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive, successful happy interesting life,” he said back in 2016.
