Stranger Issues actor Finn Wolfhard, his father Eric Wolfhard, and producer Wealthy Peete are engaged on a biopic in regards to the Replacements, experiences Selection. The three are adapting Bob Mehr’s best-selling biography Hassle Boys: The True Story of the Replacements for the large display, with the Wolfhards co-writing the screenplay and Peete producing below his Neighborhood Watch banner.
Revealed in 2016, Hassle Boys takes a definitive method 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 greatest takeaways from writing that e book in an interview with Pitchfork’s Jeremy Gordon that very same 12 months.
In a Selection cowl story, Wolfhard revealed he was working along with his dad on a music-themed undertaking, however stored the small print a secret. “I’ve been writing numerous music and scripting this film with my dad, which has been actually superb,” Wolfhard stated. “It’s a couple of band that I believe weirdly I’ve rather a lot in frequent with, numerous the members. I can’t actually discuss in regards to 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 closing season of Stranger Issues hits Netflix on November 26 and can roll out incrementally afterwards.
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