GREEN Day seem to be searching for their own yellow submarine, aiming to mimic the Beatles’ comedic exploits from 60 years ago.
The pop-punk megastars are putting out Nimrods: A Green Day Comedy, having renamed their cinematic venture after it made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival as New Years Rev.
Perhaps the biggest difference to the Beatles is that band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tres Cool and Mike Dirnt don’t play themselves in the movie. The second biggest difference is that the band featured in the movie not called Green Day.
Instead its Analog Dogs, who are loosely based on Green Day before the release of their smash hit album Dookie in 1994.
Green Day ARE mentioned in the film – are you following us? – as the band Analog Dogs believe they will be supporting then in a New Yeares concert after a cross-country trek. So it’s a road movie and a comedy.
“It’s about the experience that Green Day had on the road in the early days of more of a DIY spirit,” Armstrong told the Hollywood Reporter.
“We played anywhere and everywhere, and a lot of shows would get shut down because the cops would come. But there’s also the mud fight that happened at Woodstock. Lee (Kirk, film maker) did a great job of incorporating all of those elements that we’ve had in the past.”
Nimrods opens in the US on August 14.
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