First Look Teaser for ‘New Years Rev’ – A Green Day Story Road Trip

First Look Teaser for ‘New Years Rev’ – A Green Day Story Road Trip

by Alex Billington
September 8, 2025
Source: YouTube

“How are we getting there?” “We’re taking Wayne’s car.” Green Day has revealed a teaser trailer for a up-to-date film titled New Years Rev, a fictional feature film about an up-and-coming rock band that thinks they’re opening for Green Day. It’s produced by Green Day, but not really about them! The film just premiered at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival this week, hence this teaser trailer dropping now to celebrate its unveiling. The flick is titled New Years Rev – a coming-of-age road trip film. The story of three youthful punks willing to risk it all to follow their dream… A garage rock trio gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for a Green Day concert and hit the road across America to make the gig. The only problem is… they didn’t realize it was a prank. Directed by Lee Kirk, the indie film stars Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman, Ryan Foust, along with Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen, Bobby Lee, Mckenna Grace, Keen Ruffalo, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, and Sean Gunn. Looks like good fun! Coming-of-age teenage mania on the road.

Here’s the first teaser trailer for Lee Kirk’s film New Years Rev, direct from Green Day’s YouTube:

Intro via TIFF: “Since Green Day burst onto the scene in the 1990s, their sound and success have helped launch a countless number of garage rock bands, each aspiring to channel the group’s energy & attitude. Among the most committed are The Analog Dogs, [a rock band] who want nothing more than to meet Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool. Forcing their way to drop off a demo to their beloved idols in hopes of earning some recognition, they instead get an extremely rare opportunity — to open up for Green Day at their New Year’s concert. Or so they think. Unbeknownst to them, the opener gig is actually a prank played on them by one of their brothers. Nevertheless, naively optimistic, the young trio set off on the road from Kansas to California, with wide-eyed dreams of being on stage alongside their heroes.” 🤘🎸

New Years Rev is written and directed by the American actor / writer / filmmaker Lee Kirk, director of the films The Giant Mechanical Man and Ordinary World previously, plus a few other tiny films. Produced by Tim Perell, Jolene, Stella Bulochnikov, Robin Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Anna Keegan, and the band Green Day. This is premiering at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival this month playing in the Centerpiece section, but no other premieres set yet. No US release date is set – stay tuned for updates. Look any good? Anyone curious?

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