Green Day-Inspired Comedy ‘NIMRODS’ Sets Summer Theatrical Release

Green Day’s long, odd relationship with life on the road is now becoming the basis for a summer movie release. Inaugural Entertainment said Tuesday, May 12, that NIMRODS, the band-inspired comedy named after Green Day’s 1997 Billboard 200 top 10 album Nimrod, will open in theaters on Aug. 14. The company also confirmed a new partnership with Legion M, the fan-owned entertainment outfit that has built its business around audience participation.

Directed by Lee Kirk, the film follows three friends who hit the road to Los Angeles after mistakenly thinking their band is booked to open for Green Day at a New Year’s Eve show. That setup gives the movie its coming-of-age frame, but the premise is rooted in something more specific: Green Day’s years spent traveling in a van, the kind of scrappy tour mythology that has long sat just beneath the band’s polished stadium-era profile.

“We’ll be having the time of our lives when this movie comes out.”

The cast is built around teen actors Mason Thames, best known for The Black Phone and How to Train Your Dragon, and Mckenna Grace, whose credits include Scream 7 and Regretting You. Fred Armisen is also in the ensemble, alongside Kylr Coffman, Ryan Foust, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Keen Ruffalo, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Bobby Lee and Sean Gunn. The project pairs rising young leads with familiar comic and television names, which suggests a movie aiming for broad appeal without losing sight of its band-world premise.

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are all attached as producers, joined by Ryan Kroft, Michael Rapino of Live Nation Entertainment, Tim Perell for Process and Jonathan Daniel. That kind of involvement matters here: this is not just a film borrowing Green Day’s name, but one being shepherded by the band itself, with Live Nation folded into the production side as well.

Legion M co-founders Jeff Annison and Paul Scanlan framed the company’s participation as an extension of Green Day’s fan base, saying, “Green Day wouldn’t exist without the fans, and we’re excited to give those fans the opportunity to own a stake in the film as we work with the incredibly talented teams at Inaugural, Live Nation and Green Day to bring it to audiences.”

The film first bowed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival under the title New Year’s Rev, before landing on its current title and theatrical rollout. For Green Day, whose history has already been translated into Broadway via American Idiot, NIMRODS feels like another attempt to turn the band’s mythology into something bigger than a setlist. This time, though, the source material is less arena-sized than roadside and a little more chaotic.