Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong says ‘American Fool’ film is “finally going to occur”
Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has mentioned that the long-rumoured ‘’American Fool’ movie is “finally 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 studies again in 2011 suggesting that Tom Hanks was excited by producing.
It was then apparently confirmed in 2013, with playwright Rolin Jones saying he was “ending up” the script. In 2016, Armstrong instructed 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 challenge can be “surreal” and “offensive”.
Nonetheless, in 2020, Armstrong instructed NME that plans had been “just about scrapped”.
Now, in an interview with Variety, 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 alleged to be [a film], however it by no means panned out.”
“I’m certain one thing is gonna occur,” he continued. “The musical did so effectively and so they’ve completed it in Australia, Italy, Germany, England…It’s travelled so effectively. 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 era. A twentieth anniversary reissue of the album arrived final October, that includes a brand new documentary, 15 unreleased demos, a New York Metropolis stay 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 overview of the band’s present in Manchester, NME wrote: “By the point we attain ‘American Fool’, Armstrong has hit red-hot type, 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 Goals’ feels magnified.”
In the meantime, a special Inexperienced Day movie is within the works. In February, Variety reported {that a} street journey comedy titled New Years Rev can be produced by all three band members and can be impressed by their early touring days. It can 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 have been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Stroll Of Fame this week, adjoining to Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard.