Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has finished writing his memoir. There will be the tales his rock ‘n’ roll life, of course, and the required details of his rise from musical obscurity to stardom, but another artistic influence plays a major role as well: “I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I’m going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am,” he says. A title and a publication date remain in the works. [via Empty Lighthouse]

Burt Reynolds, on-screen heartthrob of the sixties and seventies, is hard at work on his second autobiography. But Enough About Me is due out in fall 2015, at the hands of Penguin, with a foreword by Reynolds’s friend, colleague, and contemporary Jon Voight. He’ll be braver this time around: “Setting the record straight is something that I have wanted to do for a while now, and with this book I will,” he promised. [via Technology Tell]

“America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon may play Richard Pryor in an upcoming biopic on the comedian/social critic’s life. Also unconfirmed is Lee Daniels, of “Precious” and “The Butler” fame, as the project’s director. Cannon is both excited (he’s prepping for the part now) and cautious about the possibility: “I never want to jinx anything because you guys know how movies work,” he says. [via New York Daily News]

Biographer Leo Honeycutt would like George Clooney to put his considerable charm to slightly criminal, if highly entertaining, use. Honeycutt can’t confirm that he’s working on a screenplay version of his biography on Edwin Edwards -- the four-term Louisiana governor who rose from nothing only to land decades later in prison for things like racketeering and extortion, while tossing off one-liners like “The only place that David Duke [once his political opponent] and I are alike is that we're both wizards under the sheets” -- but he would like Clooney in the lead role, and Louisiana director Steven Soderbergh at the helm. [via WWL]