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.
