We will also see in Italy Nimrodsthe comedy written and directed by Lee Kirk and produced by Green Day, featuring the three of American Idiot in the role of themselves. The film is a daring pop-punk coming-of-age story and a road movie. It will arrive in Italian cinemas with the Italian distribution of Nexo Studios from 11 to 18 August (pre-sales open from 14 July at this link). Rolling Stone is media partner. In addition to the film, the cinema will feature live songs by Green Day recorded at the Palladium in Los Angeles and an introduction by the band.
The protagonist is Tommy who, victim of a prank from his brother, thinks he has been invited to open the Green Day concert on New Year's Eve. He therefore leaves with his band, the Analog Dogs, towards Los Angeles, starting a series of adventures and misadventures on the road inspired by the pre-historic period. Dookiewhen Green Day toured America in a van. The title is naturally taken from the trio's 1997 album, that of Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).
“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.”
In addition to Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, the cast includes the trio Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust, as well as Mckenna Grace (yes, there is also a love story), Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Keen Ruffalo, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen, Bobby Lee, Sean Gunn.
The soundtrack will be released on July 31st which contains an unreleased piece by Green Day, a rock'n'roll entitled I'm Never Gonna RIP released today. Among the tracks, published pieces by Green Day that cover their entire career, exclusive songs in fact I'm Never Gonna RIPfour live songs from the trio's performance at the Palladium in Los Angeles as they appear in the film, songs by Paradox, Ultra Q and Mckenna Grace, as well as four songs by Analog Dogs, the fictional band at the center of the story (or Anal OG Dogs, as Tré Cool jokingly calls them in the film).
“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.”
