We may end up going to a shrink or having the time of our life.
On June 10, the official trailer for Nimrods – A Green Day Comedy was posted to the band’s YouTube channel. Written and directed by Lee Kirk, who also worked with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong on the 2016 film Ordinary World, the film follows a young garage band called Analog Dogs as they embark on a road trip for the ultimate gig: opening for Green Day on New Years’ Eve. Nimrods originally premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2025 under the name New Years Rev.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on the band’s experiences living in a van before the release of their 1994 major label debut album Dookie.
“I’ve always wanted to do a Green Day film,” Armstrong told Ryan Gajewski ahead of the film’s TIFF debut. “God, ever since the beginning, just all my heroes have always done films, whether it was Rock ‘n’ Roll High School by the Ramones or A Hard Day’s Night, the Who’s Quadrophenia. I wanted to just do the same thing.”
The film stars Mason Thames (How To Train Your Dragon, Regretting You), Kylr Coffman (FBI, The Gates) and Ryan Foust (Marry Me, The Goldfinch) as the members of Analog Dogs. McKenna Grace (Sunrise on the Reaping, Scream 7) plays Thames’s love interest and Armstrong, along with bandmates Mike Dirnt and TrĂ© Cool, co-star as themselves.
While this is not Green Day’s first foray into the film world, Nimrods marks the first time Armstrong is credited as a producer on a non-documentary project and the first producing credits for Dirnt and Cool. Thames and Grace also co-starred as love interests in the 2025 adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel Regretting You.
Nimrods was produced by Live Nation Studios, Inaugural Entertainment and Legion M. It is slated to hit theaters August 14.
Check out the full trailer below!
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