Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has stated that the long-rumoured ‘’American Fool’ movie is “ultimately going to occur”.
A film adaptation of the politically-charged, Grammy-winning 2004 album has been speculated about for the reason that report’s launch, with experiences again in 2011 suggesting that Tom Hanks was focused on producing.
It was then apparently confirmed in 2013, with playwright Rolin Jones saying he was “ending up” the script. In 2016, Armstrong informed NME that the film had been given the inexperienced gentle by HBO and that he can be reprising his position as St. Jimmy from the Tony-winning Broadway and West Finish musical of the identical identify. He went on to tease that the mission can be “surreal” and “offensive”.
Nevertheless, in 2020, Armstrong informed NME that plans had been “just about scrapped”.
Now, in an interview with Selection, Armstrong has revived hopes that the movie might but materialise. Talking in regards to the success of the stage musical, the singer added: “There was alleged to be [a film], nevertheless it by no means panned out.”
“I’m certain one thing is gonna occur,” he continued. “The musical did so properly and so they’ve completed it in Australia, Italy, Germany, England…It’s travelled so properly. Finally it’s going to occur, I’d assume.”
‘American Fool’ revitalised Inexperienced Day’s profession, serving as a voice of frustration in the course of the George W. Bush administration and resonating with a brand new technology. A twentieth anniversary reissue of the album arrived final October, that includes a brand new documentary, 15 unreleased demos, a New York Metropolis reside present and B-sides and bonus tracks.
Inexperienced Day carried out ‘American Fool’ in its entirety on their 2024 ‘Saviors’ world tour. In a five-star evaluate of the band’s present in Manchester, NME wrote: “By the point we attain ‘American Fool’, Armstrong has hit red-hot kind, and the quantity appears to have been cranked up a notch. There’s no room for ‘21 Weapons’ on this setlist, however the emotional efficiency of ‘Boulevard Of Damaged Desires’ feels magnified.”
In the meantime, a unique Inexperienced Day movie is within the works. In February, Selection reported {that a} street journey comedy titled New Years Rev will likely be produced by all three band members and will likely be impressed by their early touring days. It would observe three associates who embark on a street journey within the mistaken perception that they’ve secured a Inexperienced Day help slot at a New 12 months’s Eve present.
The band then put out a casting name for the movie, asking for “punks, emo, hardcore, different and rocker younger adults”.
Elsewhere, Inexperienced Day had been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Stroll Of Fame this week, adjoining to Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard.