Green Day followers are prone to really feel that they’ve been welcomed to paradise with the discharge of the trailer for Nimrods.
Inaugural Leisure is ready to launch writer-director Lee Kirk’s Nimrods theatrically on Aug. 14. Mason Thames, Mckenna Grace, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Sean Gunn, Bobby Lee and Fred Armisen star within the comedy film that hails from Stay Nation Studios and was beforehand known as New Years Rev when it premiered on the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
Nimrods is a coming-of-age movie centering on three highschool buddies who set out on a wild highway journey beneath the mistaken assumption that their fledgling band has been booked to open for Inexperienced Day on New 12 months’s Eve. The story relies on Inexperienced Day’s real-life adventures whereas dwelling in a van earlier than the success of Dookie, their 1994 Grammy-winning main label debut album that has since been licensed as double-diamond.
“Tré Cool called,” Thames says within the trailer concerning the Inexperienced Day drummer. “He invited us to L.A. to open for them on New Year’s.”
Kylr Coffman, Ryan Foust, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio and Eager Ruffalo spherical out the solid. Kirk, who beforehand directed Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in Common’s 2016 launch Unusual World, helmed Nimrods from his personal script that he developed with the band. The title references Nimrod, Inexperienced Day’s 1997 album that featured such singles as “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” and went double-platinum.
Serving as producers for Nimrods are Inexperienced Day members Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, alongside Tim Perell for Course of. Govt producers embrace Ryan Kroft and Michael Rapino for Stay Nation Studios, along with Jonathan Daniel.
Throughout an interview with THR timed to the film’s TIFF premiere, Armstrong praised his personal chemistry with Kirk on their 2016 movie and likewise gave credit score to Thames for doing a “heartfelt job” with the brand new undertaking.
“I’ve always wanted to do a Green Day film,” Armstrong mentioned. “God, ever since the beginning, just all my heroes have always done films, whether it was Rock ‘n’ Roll High School by the Ramones or [the Beatles’] A Hard Day’s Night, the Who’s Quadrophenia. I just wanted to do the same thing.”
