Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis is the subsequent on the music biopic prepare, with Common optioning the movie primarily based on his 2004 bestselling memoir.
Anthony Kiedis of Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers fame is the newest to indicate up on the music biopic prepare, with Common Footage optioning the rights to a function movie undertaking primarily based on Kiedis’ New York Instances bestseller “Scar Tissue.” Brian Grazer will produce the movie by way of Think about Leisure, alongside Kiedis, and Man Oseary, who has managed the Chili Peppers since 2021.
The ebook supplies a candid take a look at Kiedis because the frontman of Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers, as an artist, and as an addict. Set towards the drug-fueled Los Angeles punk scene of the Seventies and Eighties, “Scar Tissue” portrays an “unconventional father-and-son story,” and the way Kiedis’ experiences led to the music embraced by thousands and thousands of followers worldwide.
Common guarantees an adaptation of the ebook offering “an incredibly candid portrait of an artist, addict, and ringleader,” and a narrative that examines “with out judgement, how all of his experiences formed (the band’s) music.” The ebook was launched in 2004, written by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, and was a New York Instances bestseller.
Born in Grand Rapids, MI, Anthony Kiedis moved to Los Angeles when he was 12, offering an early publicity to the LA music scene and serving to lay the inspiration for his music profession. He co-founded the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers in 1983 with guitarist Hillel Slovak, bassist Flea (Michael Balzary), and drummer Jack Irons. Kiedis’ energetic stage presence, coupled with the band’s fusion of funk, punk, and rock, quickly gained the band a loyal fan base.
Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers has had 9 High 10 albums, 15 No. 1 Trendy Rock singles, and 6 Grammy Awards. They have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2012. The band is scheduled to play dates scheduled from late Might by way of late July, together with headlining appearances at Bonaroo in June.