Entertainment website, Deadline.com, has announced that Playtone production partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are undergoing talks to turn the Green Day Broadway musical of the band’s 2004 release, American Idiot, into a movie.
The musical features three small-town young men; one ships off to the military, the next picks up a drug habit after moving to the big city, and the third stays home with his pregnant girlfriend. Green Day, especially frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, plays a big part in the music supervising of the production, alongside Tom Kitt and musical director Michael Mayer, who also worked on Spring Awakening.
Playtone’s box office hit, 2008’s ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, although dismissed by critics, grossed $610m worldwide and proved to be one of Universal Pictures’ most financially successful films. Let’s see how American Idiot fares…
Read the full article from Deadline here. Full details on the American Idiot musical (which ended last November) here.
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