HBO is making a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot

by Jeremy Mersereau

October 7, 2016

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"Finally, Green Day's rock opera is getting a TV adaptation!" - someone, somewhere probably.

September’s over, and right on cue, Billie Joe Armstrong is waking up.

It’s hard to believe now, but back in the heady days of 2004, second-rate pop-punk songs with lyrics like “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda / now everybody do the propaganda” actually counted as vital protest music, even though everyone past the age of 14 involuntarily full-body cringed every time they heard ‘subliminal mind fuck America.’ Also, punk lifers everywhere knew Green Day were ripping off a Dillinger Four riff.

Anyway, American Idiot was popular enough to spawn a Broadway musical six years later, featuring such complex characters as Jesus of Suburbia, Whatshername, and St. Jimmy, who was periodically played by Billie Joe himself. American Idiot the musical was successful, picking up two Tony awards in 2010, and was even nominated for Best Musical that same year. Now, another six years on, and HBO’s come calling, looking to turn the stage adaptation of a Green Day album into a TV show. Well, I guess if you can successfully adapt a 1973 novel about killer cowboy robots, a facile pop-punk musical about how the suburbs are boring ought to be easy enough.

Billie Joe, always in his musical’s corner, told NME that the TV script is “currently going through a couple of rewrites” and that “it’s definitely all systems go at the moment,” despite the absence of a concrete shooting schedule. He also said he’d be reprising his role as St. Jimmy. Armstrong’s really stretching his acting chops lately.

The HBO news already has one theatrical heavy hitter excited:

Come on, at least let Miranda play Suburban Zombie #21 or whatever.

Tags: Music, News, green day, HBO

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