Anthony Kiedis Gets a HBO Show

After reading his autobiography, “Scar Tissue”, I’ve had a lingering need to devulge a little deeper into Anthony Kiedis’ life. I mean cummon! The guy was living a drug induced rock n’ roll life at around 11. Apparently HBO thinks the same thing, as they have enlisted Kiedis to develop a story based around his life. The show is being overseen by Catapult 360, who’s credits include The Bernie Mac Show and Entourage. Fuck Yea!

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis is developing a series for HBO based on his unconventional, rock ‘n’ roll childhood.

Kiedis has partnered with Catapult 360 partners Marc Abrams and Michael Benson to create the series, tentatively titled “Scar Tissue.”

Abrams and Benson are scouting for a writer to pen the script, which will center on Kiedis’ relationship with his father, Spider, who sold drugs and mingled with rock stars on the Sunset Strip, all while aspiring to get into showbiz.

The show will begin with young Kiedis moving from Grand Rapids, Mich., to West Hollywood to live with his dad. But Kiedis’ father, having been raised in a tyrannical household, decided to go to the other extreme.

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

Catapult 360 contacted Kiedis after Benson read the singer’s autobiography, also titled “Scar Tissue.” (Show is not based on the book, however, which focused more on Kiedis’ life as a rock star.) Abrams and Benson sat down with Kiedis, who told them he wrote the memoir specifically to express himself on his early experiences with his father.

“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,” Abrams said.

I’mma throw on Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik and zone out for a bit.