Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Scar Tissue' set for HBO

• 12th Nov 2008

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Keidis is said to be developing his autobiography 'Scar Tissue' into a TV series for the US channel HBO.

Already home to The Wire and Six Feet Under, HBO are keen to recreate Keidis's autobiography and have partnered him with producers Marc Abrams and Michael Benson. The series will focus on Keidis's unconventional early life in Los Angeles, living with his father Spider, a drug dealer to rock stars on Sunset Strip.

Keidis told Daily Variety: “He introduced me to the arts, to a more culturally magnificent life. But some of it was this heavy, adult matter that I wasn't quite capable of digesting … It was a very rich but challenging period of my life. I was thrust into this adult mentality by age 11.”

The series is planned as an offbeat comedy focusing on the LA rock scene of the 1970s and less upon later material within the book, such as Keidis's struggle will drugs.

“To be able to look at a very famous figure and get an origin story, to see the pieces of the puzzle that put him on the path to fame – it became very clear that this was a special project,” said Abrams.