Motley Crue 'The Dirt' Movie? 'Jackass' & 'Bad Grandpa' director Jeff Tremaine working on biopic about 'Home Sweet Home' hair metal rockers based on racy book

Jeff Tremaine might not be a household name like his Jackass partner Johnny Knoxville, but the director has been behind the camera of these crazy stunt and prank films. That said, the director recently revealed some upcoming projects he is working. One project he is developing is the film adaptation of The Dirt, an autobiographical account of the band Motley Crue. This book contains first-hand account of excessive drug use, death and sex.

"I've been offered a lot of scripts but Dirt is something I pursued with everything I had," Tremaine said in a new interview with Deadline.  "I've wanted to make this going back to 2001, when we were just planning the first Jackass movie and I found out that David Gale at MTV Films had just optioned the book... We were deep into doing Jackass on TV and about to start doing Jackass: The Movie and we were all passing the book around and going, holy shit."

"We thought we were being crazy on the road. You read about these guys and it was like 10 times worse, though I think we'd done stuff that stands up to anybody else," the filmmaker said, explaining how the book about the band was pretty surprising even to a Jackass guy.

He added: "I connected with that book on so many levels. From a band of brothers that gets ripped apart and then pulls back together, or being part of a group that is expected to behave badly, and what happens to you when that becomes your expectation. What happens when everybody encourages you and gives you money to be the worst behaved you can be? You can do no wrong, and the worse you do, the more you're celebrated. It is a story that is somehow familiar to me."

Do you think Tremaine is the right director to capture Motley Crue on film?