The Replacements Biopic in the Works from Eric and Finn Wolfhard

Stranger Things ACTOR FINN WOLFHARD, HIS FATHER ERIC WOLFHARD, AND PRODUCER Rich Peete Are Working on A Biopic About the Replacements, Reports Variety. The Three Are Adapting Bob Mehr’s Best-Seling Biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements For the Big Screen, with the Wolfhards Co-Writing the Screenplay and Peete Producing Under HIS Neighborhod Watch Banner.

Published in 2016, Trouble Boys Takes a definitive approach to how it chronicles the history of the replacements, from their early days as a minneapolis punk to their influenza on American Alt-Rock. Mehr Shared Some of his Biggest Takeways from Writing that book in an interview with Pitchfork’s Jeremy Gordon That Same Year.

In a Variety Cover Story, Wolfhard Revealed He Was Working With HIS DAD ON A Music-Themmed Project, But Keptils a Secret. “I’ve been Writing a lot of music and writing this movie with my dad, which has been really amazing,” Wolfhard Said. “It ‘subout a band that think weirdly i have a lot in common with, a lot of the members. I can’t really talc about the actual bands I do not have the rights officilly.”

Finn Wolfhard and Rich Peete Recently Workhed Together on A24’s The legend of ochiWhich Premiered at Sundance Earlier This Year. Wolfhard ALSO CO-DIRECTED, CO-WROTE, AND CO-PRODUCED THE RECENT HORRROR Hell of a summer Alongside Billy Bryk. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things Hits Netflix on November 26 and Will Roll Out Incrementally Afterwards.

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