As the final season of Stranger Things approaches, star Finn Wolfhard ‘s next major project will tap into a different brand of Gen-X nostalgia: He’s adapting Bob Mehr’s acclaimed 2016 biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements into a feature film, according to his publicist. As first reported in Variety , the 22-year-old actor and musician will co-write the screenplay with his father, Eric Wolfhard, and producer Rich Peete ( Blue Ruin ) is attached to the project.

Mehr’s best-selling book, which Rolling Stone named one of the best of its year, documented one of alt-rock’s most influential and self-destructive bands. The Minneapolis group — with its original line-up of Paul Westerberg, the late Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars — was one of the mo

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