ABC/Fred LeeThe long-in-the-works movie adaption of the Broadway musical inspired by Green Day's album American Idiot is currently in development with HBO, and Billie Joe Armstrong has shared a few details of what we can expect from the film. For one, he says that the movie version will "be a lot different from the musical."
"It's kind of more surreal but I think there’s going to be parts of it that might offend people -- which is good," Armstrong tells NME. "I think it's a good time to offend people."
"I think there's just going to be a lot of imagery that we couldn't pull off in the musical in the stage version," he continues. "You know, I don't want to give away too much, but it will be shocking in a way which makes you think."
Armstrong will be reprising his role as St. Jimmy in the film, which he played intermittently during the musical's run on Broadway.
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