Uh… Green Day Are Making A Movie With Live Nation
No longer just in the business of funding overstuffed and increasingly mid music festivals, Live Nation is now in the business of producing movies about mid musicians and mid music festivals. The company produced Rolling Loud, the upcoming Owen Wilson/Matt Rife film set at the titular hip-hop fest. And now Green Day getting in on the Live Nation action.
New Years Rev is a coming-of-age comedy about three friends who are under the impression their band is going to open for Green Day, The Wrap reports. Lee Kirk will write and direct the film, which stars Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman, and Ryan Foust. Kirk’s wife, Jenna Fischer, and her The Office castmate Angela Kinsey will also be in the film, rounding out the cast is Ignacio Diaz- Silverio and Keen Ruffalo.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong released a statement saying the movie is inspired by their early years touring in a van:
Van days rule. You will drive all night on no sleep then play a show for 10 kids in a basement of a friend of a friend’s house 50 miles east of anywhere you’ve ever heard of. But you’ll do it again the next day, and the one after that. Because you’re doing it with your bandmates who become your family and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever known. It’s electric. Let the music and mischief ensue.
Armstrong and his Green Day bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are producers on the project. Filming is said to be underway in Oklahoma. There’s something disheartening about Live Nation and Green Day producing a movie about a DIY punk band seeing as how nothing about Green Day or Live Nation is DIY or punk in any sense of the word. Hair bleach won’t buy itself.
