With Stranger Things wrapping up its final season next month on the 2025 TV schedule, it’s time for the cast to find their next opportunities. Finn Wolfhard is already hard at work on a biopic about The Replacements, the iconic ‘80s band known for their timeless songs like “Can’t Hardly Wait,” “I Will Dare,” and my personal favorite “Within Your Reach,” as well as their infamous backstage antics. It could be the perfect role for Wofhard, but will he star in it? Let’s get into it.
The Film Is Based On A Great Biography
According to Variety, Wolfhard is co-writing a script with his father, Eric, for a biopic about one of my favorite ‘80s bands, based on the excellent biography by Bob Mehr, Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. That’s right, it sounds like Wolfhard is staying in the decade that has meant so much to his early career as a co-star of the hit Netflix show that is set in the ‘80s, and dripping with Gen X nostalgia. Why not focus on a band that many Gen Xers like me consider a standard-bearer for the era?
Cameron Crowe’s best movies, Singles, in 1992. The surviving members of The Replacements (original lead guitarist Bob Stinson died in 1995) have reunited a couple of times over the years, most recently from 2012-2015.
Look at any photo of Westerberg from those hell-raising years for the band and tell me Wolfhard wouldn’t be perfect to play him in the upcoming music biopic. Not only is Wolfhard about the same age as Westerberg was in those days, but the role would be an excellent way to transition into more “adult” roles for the actor known for playing a teenager on Stranger Things, which, by the way, you can catch up on with your Netflix subscription, before the last season kicks off on November 26th.
According to the latest report, there is no word on whether Wolfhard will star in the movie he’s writing, but it seems too good to pass up playing the ostensible lead, and I hope he doesn’t.