Tom Hanks may turn the stage version of American Idiot into a film

[lovelyrita]

Tooom, I've always knew that you're great guy! :D

[Li Sa]

I just read it on Facebook

but.... I#m confused this is all happening so ...fast

[Comrade]

It's the Tom Hanks bit that draws me to this....

[Farah]

uuuhh.. wow... no opinions from me, i didn't really care much about the musical either really.

[spark in the night]

THanks!

[Harinezumi]

I WILL NOT watch the movie if Julia Roberts is in it. I fucking hate her and she's way too old for it anyway. I'm starting to think that they want to turn it into some hollywood bullshit that has nothing to do with real life/emotions/people. I hope GD won't allow that to happen.

[Angela.]

I think the best would be a movie more like the JOS video, the script should take the album literally and green day's orignal recordgins should be used as the soundtrack. not a musical movie.

Perfect idea. I love the JOS music video, it's my absolute favorite. So to be able to see a full length movie similar to the music video? Paradise.

[Smoothed Out]

I think this is a great idea, especially good for all the people who hasn't been able to see the actual musical on stage and may never get the chance to

[Guest Shangri-La]

amazing!

[Katarina.]

Lmao, it would be awesome if Billie, Mike and Tre are in it looking at the small amount of acting they've done and the quality of it, that would be hilarious not gonna happen though, or it would HIGHLY surprise me

They said they wouldn't act in a movie, but I'd love to see them as random extra's walking somewhere in the background <3

[skindogfuss]

dont wanna read through 5 pages but here's the viagogo article about it:

http://www.viagogo.co.uk/News/Tom-Hanks-to-make-Green-Day-movie/_A-492

sounds like a good idea!

[Angie-Marie]

According to NME Tom Hanks might have Julia Roberts lined up to play a lead role. link

Julia Roberts, WTF?

Anyway, I don't really know how I feel about this. I love Green Day of course and I'm a huge musical fan, so I'd so be there opening weekend. I like Tom Hanks a lot, but I don't know if he'd be the right person to turn American Idiot into a movie. I'm also concerned that if this were made into a movie, it would not do well at the box office. The biggest audience for modern movie musicals is women and I don't think American Idiot: The Movie is something that would appeal to the average female movie-goer. Mamma Mia was a very light, fun, feel-good kind of movie, it's no big surprise that one was a big hit. But American Idiot wouldn't be like Mamma Mia, and it seems like darker musicals (except for Cabaret and West Side Story) typically aren't as successful as the feel-good ones. Nine wasn't a real upbeat musical, and that one failed pretty hard commercially. I think this is something that would ultimately be best done as an independent film.

[Hermione]

According to NME Tom Hanks might have Julia Roberts lined up to play a lead role. link

LOL , more bullshit from NME as usual.

[Doug]

The film brought in $610 worldwide, becoming on of Universal Pictures’ biggest hits ever.

$610 that's all? also good job misspelling one. nothing like a good editor.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

^Haha, yeah, I noticed that too

[Nobody_Likes_You]

Seems like I went to the toilet at the right moment...Turned on the Radio and heard the words Green Day, so...

They said, that there would be proceedings at the moment with Tom Hanks and stuff and even said, that Julia Roberts may play one role in it. There won't be lots of dialogs, the story is told by the songs. (Just like American Idiot is, I think the radio moderator didn't know too much about it) It was on 1Live by the way..

[Rae'n'shine]

I didn't get a chance to see the stage version when it was in Berkeley and I definitely won't be able to go to the other side of the country to see it on Broadway, so I really really hope it becomes a movie!

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Seems like I went to the toilet at the right moment...Turned on the Radio and heard the words Green Day, so...

They said, that there would be proceedings at the moment with Tom Hanks and stuff and even said, that Julia Roberts may play one role in it. There won't be lots of dialogs, the story is told by the songs. (Just like American Idiot is, I think the radio moderator didn't know too much about it) It was on 1Live by the way..

Julia Roberts having one role >>>>>>>>> Julia Roberts having a lead role. I don't have anything against her, but Julia Roberts as Whatsername, just, no.

and I'm glad if it's indeed true it will only be told by songs. I hope that if/when this will happen it will follow the musical's plot, and not the album. The album leaves room for your own interpretation, which is really nice, I wouldn't like if a movie would suddenly set boundaries to that.

[Conspiracy.]

Seems like I went to the toilet at the right moment...Turned on the Radio and heard the words Green Day, so...

They said, that there would be proceedings at the moment with Tom Hanks and stuff and even said, that Julia Roberts may play one role in it. There won't be lots of dialogs, the story is told by the songs. (Just like American Idiot is, I think the radio moderator didn't know too much about it) It was on 1Live by the way..

Julia Roberts singing?!?

[Nobody_Likes_You]

I don't think she'll be singing. I don't even think that she'll act in this thing. It's just a rumor.

[Brian]

Could be worse. M. Night Shyamalan could be directing it! Just saying!

I'll see it either way.

[greendaygal89]

well it will either be totally amazing or totally awfull and give GD a bad name!!!

fingers crossed for totally amazing

[Johannamunter]

Tom Hanks? Hmm that's kind of wierd..

[minority29]

I always knew I liked Tom Hanks

[Rosie May]

I like that Tom Hanks wants to be apart of him, I generally like the movies he's in. If he produced it it could only be a good thing. I'd prefer if it wasn't a musical movie, as others have said, something like the JOS video would be really cool, but if it was a musical movie I'd still be happy. I wonder will this happen at all?