Despite already coming out with another album and five years passing since its release, Green Day’s lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is still holding hopes for a silver screen adaptation of his band’s 2004 album American Idiot and already has a vision of what it’ll become.
“I thought American Idiot had a lot in common with something like ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,'” said the musician. “It would be great to see a film made out of it someday too.”
The 2004 concept album chronicled the story of an everyman, anti-hero protagonist known as Jesus Of Suburbia as he comes across such characters as punk-rock freedom fighter St. Jimmy and his nemesis, revolutionist Whatsername. For the single’s cinematic music video (directed by Samuel Bayer), Jesus Of Suburbia was portrayed by Lou Tayor Pucci with Kelli Garner as his girlfriend and Deborah Kara Unger as his mother. By the sound of Armstrong’s own casting though, the film is definitely going down a path we all don’t want it to.
“Maybe we’ll have, you know, Tim Armstrong (Rancid) come out as Whatsername and we’ll get the Madden brothers (Good Charlotte).”
Or maybe you should just stick to what you know? [MTV]