Green Day have produced a new film, Nimrods, which draws heavily on the band's own early experiences touring in vans and scraping together money on the road. The comedy, released in cinemas on 14 August, follows two young bandmates, played by Mason Thames and Kylr Coffman, as they travel across America to open for Green Day, encountering car troubles, sketchy motels and stolen rides along the way. Band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool say the story is packed with "Easter eggs" reflecting real incidents from their formative years, making it a project with genuine personal resonance rather than just a promotional vehicle.

Armstrong recalled the band relying on friends' cars and even once stealing a limo, details echoed in the film's plot about a stolen car. Cool and Dirnt described a real robbery in which their touring van was broken into in New Orleans, leaving them without money or clothes and forcing them to play impromptu shows, including one in an Alabama house, to fund their journey; a tattered puppet named Gravy featured in the film was reportedly a genuine casualty of that theft. The film, named after Green Day's 1997 album, also spotlights up-and-coming acts The Linda Lindas and The Paradox, continuing the band's history of supporting younger punk and pop-punk artists.