In looking for something interesting to post about Paul Westerberg for his birthday today (Happy Birthday Paul!), I realize only now there's apparently a Replacements biopic in the works:
A biopic is on the way for The Replacements, the punk band that emerged from Minneapolis in the early 1980s and later turned towards a more pop-oriented sound as the decade turned to the ’90s.
Josh Boone, the director of The Fault in Our Stars and The New Mutants, revealed in a recent interview that his next film is a biopic of the ‘mats, which will be based on author Bob Mehr’s best-selling biography of the band from 2017, Troubled Boys. Nat Wolff is set to play frontman Paul Westerberg, while Owen Teague will play bassist Tommy Stinson – at least, as an adult, since Tommy was 12 years old when the band first formed. Additional casting is also underway.
I won't hold my breath for it, but let's all hope this happens.
My thoughts on the utterly fantastic and utterly depressing/defeating book its to be based on, Bob Mehr's Trouble Boys, can be found (luckily for you!) HERE.
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