Green Day has a new movie in the works, but Billie Joe Armstrong still has his eyes on another film project — an adaptation of the American Idiot musical — that was planned but never made.
Speaking to Variety ahead of the band’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony Thursday, Armstrong was asked about the status of the American Idiot film, based on the one-time Broadway musical; back in 2016, HBO revealed plans to adapt the musical with Armstrong in the role of St. Jimmy, but nearly a decade later, the film remains unmade.
“There was supposed to be [a film], but it never panned out,” Armstrong told Variety. “I’m sure something is gonna happen. The musical did so well and they’ve done it in Australia, Italy, Germany, England … It’s traveled so well. Eventually it’s going to happen, I would think.”
(Back in 2016, Armstrong said of the adaptation, “We’ve got a green light from HBO, and the script is currently going through a couple of rewrites here and there, so I’m not sure when exactly we’re going to start shooting, but it’s definitely all systems go at the moment.”)
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In the meantime, the music of Green Day will feature on the big screen in an upcoming comedy film titled New Years Rev inspired by their early days; that movie held an open casting call for “punks, emo, hardcore, alternative and rocker young adults, aged 18-30” back in February.
Green Day is producing and also set to appear in New Years Rev alongside Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, and Sean Gunn. Lee Kirk is both writer and director for the film, which follows three best friends on their journey to Los Angeles to open for Green Day on New Year’s Eve. “Their roadtrip is a rowdy and mischievous jaunt across the country filled with adventures, based on the exploits of Green Day and their years of living in a tour van,” a synopsis of the movie reads.
