In a June 2016 interview , Kiedis stated he had regrets of writing '' Scar Tissue '' saying “ I did regret the book for a while as there was some pain caused then , I started seeing the long term positive reverberating . People were reading it in hospitals , in prisons and schools and it was having a positive effect . I realised that the whole point of writing that book was n’t for me , but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive , successful happy interesting life . And so whatever shame , pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through , then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it . ” In 2008 it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television series for HBO titled '' Spider and Son '' which would be loosely based on Anthony 's autobiography '' Scar Tissue '' . The show was originally scheduled to premiere in late 2010 but was not picked up as a series , despite a pilot script penned by John Sayles . In 2011 , the rights to the show were picked up by FX and that '' Entourage '' producers , Marc Abrams and Mike Benson will produce the series . The series is expected to follow the first half of Kiedis ' book during his pre teen and teenage years and his relationship with his father Blackie Dammett . Dammett 's autobiography , '' Lords of the Sunset Strip '' , will also be used as a source for the series . Dammett confirmed in 2013 that the production of the series has been " mothballed " however he hoped they could re-visit the project in once the Chili Peppers finished their '' I 'm with You World Tour '' that same year . As of 2018 , the series has yet to resume production
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