Well this one is out of left field, in a morning where I’ll post two music related stories, this has to be the oddest by far. From Digital Spy
Green Day are to make a movie of ‘American Idiot’– but they will not appear in it themselves…Front-man Billy Joe Armstrong said: “I’m going to be involved in some of the writing and production for the movie, which will be like a mix of The Who’s albums and films, Tommy and Quadrophenia.”
He does go on to say that the acting will be left to the professionals, although there is the hint that you could see them in cameo roles, as he does say “starring roles”. It’ll be interesting to see the genre of music movies alive again, it’s not one that’s really taken off unless the band is huge, and Green Day certainly are. It also sounds like they’ve got their heads screwed on a little regarding how it should be done.
We shall see though. What we can be assured is a kick ass soundtrack.
