Green Day musical set for big screen

The Green Day-inspired musical 'American Idiot' is to be turned into a feature film.

The Broadway stage production, which uses the songs of the band's seminal 2004 album to tell the coming-of-age story of three small-town guys, is set to close on April 24 and 'Milk' screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is in talks to write the script for the cinema version with Michael Mayer directing.