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 file’s launch, with reviews again in 2011 suggesting that Tom Hanks was interested by producing.
It was then apparently confirmed in 2013, with playwright Rolin Jones saying he was “ending up” the script. In 2016, Armstrong advised NME that the film had been given the inexperienced gentle by HBO and that he can be reprising his function 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 advised NME that plans had been “just about scrapped”.
Now, in an interview with Selection, Armstrong has revived hopes that the movie could but materialise. Talking in regards to the success of the stage musical, the singer added: “There was imagined 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 nicely they usually’ve achieved it in Australia, Italy, Germany, England…It’s travelled so nicely. Finally it’s going to occur, I might 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 evaluation of the band’s present in Manchester, NME wrote: “By the point we attain ‘American Fool’, Armstrong has hit red-hot type, and the amount 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 Goals’ 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 shall be produced by all three band members and shall be impressed by their early touring days. It’s going to observe three mates who embark on a street journey within the mistaken perception that they’ve secured a Inexperienced Day help slot at a New Yr’s Eve present.
The band then put out a casting name for the movie, asking for “punks, emo, hardcore, various 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.
