Stranger Issues actor Finn Wolfhard, his father Eric Wolfhard, and producer Wealthy Peete are engaged on a biopic about the Replacements, studies Variety. The three are adapting Bob Mehr’s best-selling biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements for the large display, with the Wolfhards co-writing the screenplay and Peete producing underneath his Neighborhood Watch banner.
Revealed in 2016, Hassle Boys takes a definitive strategy to the way it chronicles the historical past of the Replacements, from their early days as a Minneapolis punk band to their lasting affect on American alt-rock. Mehr shared a few of his largest takeaways from writing that guide in an interview with Pitchfork’s Jeremy Gordon that very same 12 months.
In a Variety cowl story, Wolfhard revealed he was working along with his dad on a music-themed mission, however stored the small print a secret. “I’ve been writing lots of music and penning this film with my dad, which has been actually superb,” Wolfhard stated. “It’s a couple of band that I feel weirdly I’ve loads in widespread with, lots of the members. I can’t actually discuss concerning the precise band as a result of I don’t have the rights formally but.”
Finn Wolfhard and Wealthy Peete not too long ago labored collectively on A24’s The Legend of Ochi, which premiered at Sundance earlier this 12 months. Wolfhard additionally co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced the current horror movie Hell of a Summer time alongside Billy Bryk. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things hits Netflix on November 26 and can roll out incrementally afterwards.
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