Green Day's 'American Idiot' Movie Gets Green Light From HBO

Green Day's seminal rock album American Idiot now has the go-ahead from HBO to be made into a movie. There have been rumors about the project circling for years (including one in 2011 claiming Tom Hanks was producing it), but Billie Joe Armstrong has now confirmed the news to NME.

"That’s the plan right now, yeah," the frontman revealed. "We’ve got a green light from HBO, and the script is currently going through a couple of rewrites here and there, so I’m not sure when exactly we’re going to start shooting, but it’s definitely all systems go at the moment."