A film inspired by the poor and daring beginnings of Green Day, when the trio was an independent Californian punk-rock band with no hope of success. But also a road trip starring three kids who hope to open for Green Day and luckily reach the concert venue. And ultimately a film with Green Day.
The trailer for is out Nimrods: A Green Day Comedywhich is neither a biopic nor a film in which Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are at the center of the story. It's a comedy starring the fictional band Analog Dogs (or Anal OG Dogs, as Tré Cool calls them in the trailer), namely Mason Thames, Kyrl Coffman and Ryan Foust. They are a group with many hopes and little means but they manage to give a demo to Green Day. In the United States the road movie will be released on August 14th. Director Lee Kirk, who wrote and directed it, based the story on the years when the trio toured America in a van, before the boom in Dookie.
“It's about the stuff that Green Day did on tour in the early days, when the spirit was do-it-yourself,” Armstrong told HollywoodReporters in September, when the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. «We played everywhere, many concerts were interrupted by the arrival of the police. But there is also the mud battle of Woodstock. Lee did a nice job of putting our stories from the past into it.”
It's also a love story, obviously with clumsy implications for the protagonist. Among the other performers, in addition to Green Day themselves, there are Mckenna Grace, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen. The title, literally “idiots”, is naturally taken from the trio's 1997 album, that of Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) And Hitchin' a Ride.
“I always wanted to make a Green Day movie,” Armstrong said. «All my heroes have made films, like Rock'n'Roll High School of the Ramones, A Hard Day's Night of the Beatles or Quadrophenia by The Who. I wanted to do the same thing.”
