Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith, Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland, 04/06/1990. (Photo by G. Knaps/Getty Images)
Netflix has teased a secret new documentary about rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers due out in March 2026, following its launch at the Cannes Film Festival last year. It is scheduled to launch the streamer globally on March 20, 2026.
Few bands have managed to bottle pure Californian chaos like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, the group combined funk basslines, punk energy, and psychedelic rock into a sound that somehow seemed both carefree and radio-ready. Frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, guitarist John Frusciante, and drummer Chad Smith became the lineup most fans associated with the band, which delivered era-defining albums like Blood Sugar Sex Magic and California.
This new origin story document reminisces about the band’s childhood, with Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Hillel Slovak tracing their formation. It features interviews with Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Jack Irons, and George Clinton, among others.
ben feldman Serving as the project’s director, having previously worked on documentary limited series for FreeVie, bug outAnd rich and shameless For TNT. John Tarquinio Serves as editor on documentary features. Asta Entertainment, Submarine Entertainment and PolyGram Entertainment are behind the film.
We contacted Netflix about the documentary more than a month ago, after the film received an R-rating for language and drug content. He declined to comment at the time, but Variety got the exclusive this morning.
In a statement to the outlet, director Ben Feldman said, “It is a true honor to partner with Netflix to bring ‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ to a global audience. At its core, this is a deeply relatable story — about the friendships that shape our identities and the enduring power of bonds formed in adolescence,” adding, “What is certainly less relevant is that those friends here formed one of the greatest rock bands of all time.” Made. History. I’m so grateful to the band and Hillel’s family for helping bring this story to the world stage.
This is the second Red Hot Chili Peppers project to hit Netflix in the last year, with the band collaborating with David Fincher. love, death and robots For the controversial fourth volume of the animated anthology series, where his song can’t stop Brought to life with puppets.