RED HOT CHILI PEPPER MEETS ART HOUSE FILMMAKER
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 2:37pm by Axl Rosenberg
I know we’ve been talking about a movies a lot today; I dunno, it’s a cinemetal kinda day. Maybe ’cause the Oscraps were last night.
ANYWAY, are y’all familiar with the fine work of Mr. John Sayles? He got his started writing Roger Corman b-movies like Piranha (the Jaws rip-off) and Alligator (about a giant alligator eating people in the sewers of NYC) and still makes ends meet by doing re-write work on big budget crap (Bad Boys II, for one – but he also wrote a draft of Jurassic Park IV that was about, I shit you not, genetically modified super dinosaurs that the government uses to combat drug lords). But his true calling is being a director of little, intimate, talky indie movies – Lone Star, Sunshine State, and The Brother from Another Planet, amongst others, are all John Sayles joints.
Why am I telling you all this? Because apparently Sayles is going to write a new HBO series based on the life of Red Hot Chili Pepper front dude Anthony Kiedis.
More specifically, the series will be based on Kiedis’ autobiography, Scar Tissue. I’ve never read it because, well, it’s not The Dirt. But Sayles and Kiedis are said to be getting along famously, and Kiedis apparently had a very dramatic West Hollywood upbrining. Plus: you gotta be curious about what kinda take the maker of Matewan and Eight Men Out is gonna hafta say about the wild world of Hollywood rock n’ roll. Sayles’ only previous dramatic foray into music was 2007’s Honeydripper, which was about the blues and in no way featured a character famous for wearing a cock sock.
I just really, really hope that they include an episode of Keidis’ time as a cast member in Point Break. When he gets shot in the foot? Awe-some.
-AR
[via CHUD]
This may not be the best site for a fan of the band, but whatever… the book was great.. i’m a little sketchy about this guy they got working on it, but hbo is kinda been on a roll with thier new shows lately (big love, tru-blood, the show about the psycholigist i forget the title, molitov alta, etc.) so maybe just cause he’s a shitty writer of his own material, it doesn’t mean he’s gonna be able to fuck up something THAT badly that’s already been written.
BTW dirt as great a book as it was will never see the light of day as a decent movie. With the extreme of a storyline it’ll be near impossible to stay on the other side of a self parody/spinal tap documentary
Good book, you should read it. It’s got a lot of crazy rock star stories. Anthony did like every drug known to man before the age of 13 lol
Amazing book. Even though they aren’t metal I think a lot of people can respect RHCP for their good music and great live performances.
I’m holding my breath that the film adaptation will live up to the book though.
Dude, Bad Boys II was fuckin’ awesome.
I think the important thing is being overlooked here “he also wrote a draft of Jurassic Park IV that was about, I shit you not, genetically modified super dinosaurs that the government uses to combat drug lords”
if only………….. oh well I can still dream
lol Word. I kinda want to see that.
RHCP are dead to me now(they’ve been shite since californication), but Scar Tissue was a great book. Kiedis is a pretentious douche but I reckon this show will be decent.
“Now that would be a waste of time”