As the final season of Stranger Things approaches, star Finn Wolfhard‘s next major project will tap into a different brand of Gen-X nostalgia: He’s adapting Bob Mehr’s acclaimed 2016 biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements into a feature film, according to his publicist. As first reported in Variety, the 22-year-old actor and musician will co-write the screenplay with his father, Eric Wolfhard, and producer Rich Peete (Blue Ruin) is attached to the project.
Mehr’s best-selling book, which Rolling Stone named one of the best of its year, documented one of alt-rock’s most influential and self-destructive bands. The Minneapolis group — with its original line-up of Paul Westerberg, the late Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars — was one of the most beloved indie acts of the Eighties, with classic albums including Let It Be and Tim. The Replacements broke up in 1991, though Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson toured together under the band name from 2013-15.
Wolfhard teased the project in a recent Variety cover story. “I’ve been writing a lot of music and writing this movie with my dad, which has been really amazing,” Wolfhard said. “It’s about a band that I think weirdly I have a lot in common with, a lot of the members. I can’t really talk about the actual band because I don’t have the rights officially yet.”
The movie follows the horror film Hell of a Summer, which Wolfhard co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced. He’s currently touring solo in support of his debut album, Happy Birthday. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things premieres on Netflix on November 26 and will be released in stages through New Year’s Eve.
From Rolling Stone US
