Green Day fans will likely feel like they’ve been welcomed into heaven with the release of the Green Day trailer Nimrod.
Inaugural Entertainment is set to release writer-director Lee Kirk’s film Nimrod It will be released theatrically on August 14. Mason Thames, Mckenna Grace, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Sean Gunn, Bobby Lee and Fred Armisen star in the comedy that hails from Live Nation Studios and was formerly known as New General Pastor When it premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
Nimrod is a coming-of-age film centered around three high school friends who set off on a wild road trip under the mistaken assumption that their fledgling band is booked to open for Green Day’s New Year’s Eve concert. The story is based on Green Day’s real-life adventures while living in a van before the success of the Green Day movie Dukitheir 1994 Grammy Award-winning debut album which has since been certified double diamond.
“Call Tré Cool,” Tims says in the trailer about the Green Day drummer. “He invited us to Los Angeles to open for them on New Year’s.”
Kyler Kaufman, Ryan Foust, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, and Ken Ruffalo complete the cast. Kirk, who previously directed Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, in Universal’s 2016 release Ordinary worldhelmets Nimrod From his own script that he developed with the band. Title references NimrodGreen Day’s 1997 album which included singles such as “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” and went double platinum.
Serve as producers for Nimrod They are Green Day members Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, along with Tim Perell in Process. Executive producers include Live Nation Studios’ Ryan Croft and Michael Rapinoe, as well as Jonathan Daniel.
During an interview with THR At the time of the film’s TIFF premiere, Armstrong praised his chemistry with Kirk in their 2016 film, and also gave Thames credit for doing an “honest job” on the new project.
“I’ve always wanted to do a Green Day movie,” Armstrong said. “Oh my God, from the beginning, all my heroes have always directed films, be it Rock and Roll High School By Ramones O [the Beatles’] Hard nightfrom Quadrophenia. “I just wanted to do the same thing.”
