From a successful album to a hit Broadway musical, “American Idiot” is now coming to the big screen.

“American Idiot,” the hit Broadway play based on the Grammy-winning Green Day album of the same name, is in talks to sell its screen rights to Universal.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be produced by Tom Hanks through his Playtone label, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who wrote “Milk”, is in talks to write the screenplay.

Green Day, best known in the mid-90s as a California punk band, matured and took a political turn with their 2004 album ‘American Idiot’.  An anti-Bush rock opera, the album inspired the Broadway show about the record’s main character, Jesus of Surburbia.

The band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, wrote the book for the broadway show, which won two Tonys for production and was nominated for Best Musical. Currently, he is starringi n the show for the second time, as it closes out on its run.

Sounds exciting!  From the success of both the album and the Broadway musical, it will be interesting to see how the film turns out or if Armstrong reprises his role.