Saturday, June 18, 2011

American Idiot - The Movie!?!?

You may not know this, but I'm secretly kind of a theater geek. I mean, I wouldn't really want to be in any production or anything, but I love musicals and the costumes and of course, the music.(Les Miserables, anyone?) It would be a dream to play in any pit orchestra for a musical or work on the sets and costumes for one. Now this leads me to American Idiot. So, apparently back in April, it was confirmed that there is going to be a movie based on American Idiot, the Green Day album. There is already a musical - American Idiot the Musical which is based on the album and uses the music from the album plus songs from other Green Day albums and has side stories as well besides the main story from American Idiot. The musical is going on a national tour this fall after it closed up on Broadway and from what I've seen on Youtube (I haven't seen it live, but I hope to when it goes on tour) it's a pretty good musical. It also doesn't hurt that it uses many Green Day songs. This naturally begs the question though: What is this movie going to be about? And also, what format is it going to be in? Is it just going to be a West Side Story type movie - where the musical is translated in to a movie but with musical sequences or is it going to be just a hardcore movie movie with only dialogue and Green Day music playing in the background? Personally, I'm hoping that it's going to be more like a movie movie because I find the random singing/dancing sequences just a bit awkward and out of place.Whichever it is though, I'm looking forward to it This American Idiot album really has manifested itself in many mediums...who knows what they're going to do? Whatever it is, I'm excited.

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