Finn Wolfhard shares update on The Replacements biopic he’s been working on with his dad

Finn Wolfhard has given NME an exclusive update on his planned biopic of Minnesota post-punk band The Replacements. READ MORE: Finn Wolfhard on his first post-’Stranger Things’ album: “These songs are less personal and more about characters” Last October, it was reported that the Stranger Things star was adapting a biopic about the group with his father and producer Rich Peete. The trio are adapting Bob Mehr’s best-selling biography Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements for the big screen. The Wolfhards were reported to be working on the screenplay together. In a new interview with NME’s Alex Flood to discuss his album ‘Fire From The Hip’, he talked about the status of the project and his vision for the story. “We’ve sent it off to the director and really, really wanna make it as soon as possible,” he said. “That band means so much to me. I would love to be able to tell their story in the most cool and least Bohemian Rhapsody way. No shade to that movie, but they’re the antithesis of that kind of thing. I want to make something that’s maybe a little weirder.” You can read the full interview here and watch it in the video below. The actor dives deeper into the inspiration...