Boy George said: "I don't want it to be like a fantasy of somebody else. I feel like it should be honest and truthful as I am hilarious. I say tell the truth as the truth is far more interesting than things that are made up, you know."
Boy George has lived an eventful life and his four-month prison sentence in 2009 - for falsely imprisoning a male escort - is likely to feature in the biopic.
Speaking about it previously, he said: "I always maintained that jail would finish me off, but it didn't.
"You somehow find the strength. It was a life-changing experience and I feel I came out of that situation with some wisdom and knowledge.
"I really don't view that period in my life as negative… But I wouldn't want to go back."
The star admitted his "troubles" – which also included being sentenced to community service in 2006 after police in New York found cocaine in his home – were a valuable life lesson, but they also reminded him he hasn't fully shaken off the "nihilistic attitude" of his youth, which he wants to hold on to.
He said: "I have always had a mistake in me, but that's okay. As far as the troubles I had back in 2006 and 2009, of course they are things I'm not proud of.
"Yet at the same time they remind me that I hadn't shaken off that nihilistic attitude of the past, nor would I ever want to.
"And every mistake is a positive life lesson … It really is."
