Slash says movie version of his book could be interesting

Velvet Revolver and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash said backstage at the American Music Awards on Sunday night (November 18th) that there had been "some interest" from Hollywood in a film version of his recently published autobiography, but that he hadn't "really looked into it." Slash told us that he'd be open to the idea, but not without some restrictions: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "The one thing I wouldn't have them do or allow them to do would be to actually do the book with the characters in it, the way that they are in real life as far as who they are. You know, if you wanted to take the story and make up some people (laughs) and change the names and all that kind of stuff, and make everybody fictional, it could be interesting. But if you were gonna try and go, 'Okay, this is Slash and this is Axl (Rose) and this is Slash's mom, and this character's gonna play Scott (Weiland),' no, I wouldn't allow it."

Slash published his memoirs, simply titled Slash, last month.

Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland said at the AMAs that he has had a publishing deal for the last year to also write his autobiography.

Velvet Revolver had to cancel a four-city Japanese tour slated to begin this week because of immigration issues, but the band is still set to head to Australia in December.