In an occasion of his performing and music careers additional blurring collectively, Finn Wolfhard has revealed plans to adapt Bother Boys, the 2016 biography on indie rock gods The Replacements.
As Selection reported, Wolfhard is co-writing the script alongside his father, Eric Wolfhard, with Wealthy Peete serving as a producer. (Peete additionally produced the Finn Wolfhard-staring The Legend Of Ochi launched earlier this yr.) It wouldn’t be the youthful Wolfhard’s first foray behind the cameras, as he beforehand co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced 2023’s principally good Hell Of A Summer season.
Wolfhard took to Instagram lately to substantiate his involvement within the mission (which presently has no launch date), writing, “One among my mother and father’ first dates was to a Replacements live performance. Then I used to be born! As [Paul] Westerberg as soon as stated, ‘Let’s let em down.’” To not push gentle conspiracy theories, however does that imply he might play Westerberg on movie? Some have already made a strong argument for him taking up the function of Tommy Stinson, however a run because the dynamic frontman appears extra becoming for the rising younger star.
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The mission was first teased earlier this summer season throughout Wolfhard’s cowl story with Selection. On the time, he indicated that he’d been “writing a variety of music and scripting this film with my dad, which has been actually superb.” Nevertheless, he couldn’t “speak in regards to the precise band as a result of I don’t have the rights formally but.” Nonetheless, he as soon as once more echoed a private reference to The Replacements, including, “It’s a couple of band that I feel weirdly I’ve lots in widespread with, a variety of the members.”
Written by singular rock journalist Bob Mehr, 2016’s Bother Boys is, in some ways, the one defining chronicle of The Replacements as this linchpin of the trendy indie rock panorama. The guide itself represents 10-plus years of analysis and interviews, and is “a deeply intimate portrait, revealing the primal elements and forces that formed one of the good and notoriously self-destructive rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time,” in response to press supplies. The Guardian’s evaluation made notice that the guide’s a lot much less of a vital evaluation, and extra of a take a look at the usually tumultuous, at all times life-affirming profession, antics, and music of the famed Minneapolis band.
The 22-year-old Wolfhard is, after all, no stranger to creating music, having fronted the band Calpurnia for a number of years adopted by its off-shoot group, The Aubreys. In June 2025, he launched his debut solo album, the entertaining Glad Birthday. So, does this imply he could possibly be performing Replacements songs for the movie? Or, that some type of Replacements revival will occur across the movie’s launch? Time effectively inform, however that is nonetheless strong information for followers of each basic indie rock and biopics with bizarre, charming leads.
