Tom DeLonge unveils first trailer for ‘Monsters of California,’ his directorial film debut. Watch it here

Tom DeLonge has in no way aspired to be a film star, but the founder of punk-pop band blink-182 is eager to make his debut behind the digital camera.

On Thursday morning, DeLonge unveiled the first trailer for the feature-duration “Monsters of California,” a sci-fi-tinged coming-of-age movie that marks his directorial debut. He experienced formerly generated “Love,” a 2011 sci-fi drama that featured a rating by DeLonge’s present-day band, Angels & Airwaves.

A Poway indigenous who co-leads the band Angels & Airwaves, the singer and guitarist cowrote “Monsters of California’s” semi-autobiographical screenplay with Ian Miller. The storyline focuses on DeLonge’s passions for paranormal exercise and skateboarding, accented by some of the teenager hijinks that inspired a variety of blink-182’s tracks.

The cast incorporates Tony Award-nominee Richard Variety, Emmy Award-nominee Arianne Zucker, Sports activities Illustrated model Camille Kostek and newcomers Jack Samson, Jared Scott and Jack Lancaster. You can check out the trailer beneath.

“Anyone who knows me, or follows me on social media, is familiar with I’m no stranger to the paranormal, which is why directing ‘Monsters of California’ was a no-brainer,” DeLonge stated in a assertion issued Thursday.

“The movie normally takes my fascination with the unexplained, combines it with the skate tradition I grew up a element of, and tosses in my absurd feeling of humor that thousands and thousands acquired to witness for the duration of my blink-182 times.”

“Monsters of California” has been at least 5 yrs in the making, with at least just one title alter on your own the way.

In 2017, DeLonge announced he would direct “Strange Instances,” a movie about a team of rebellious team San Diego skate boarders investigating serious paranormal action. It was scheduled to be co-penned with Ben Kull, his collaborator on the 2014 animated quick film, “Poet Anderson: The Aspiration Walker,” and to element songs by Angels & Airwaves, the San Diego band that teams DeLonge with multi-instrumentalist Ilan Rubin of Nine Inch Nails.

Questioned in a 2017 San Diego Union-Tribune job interview how autobiographical “Strange Times” would be, DeLonge replied: “That was my lifestyle — skateboarding and audio! And, to this day, I desire I nonetheless skateboarded. I glance at skateboards and wish I could (trip), but I’d break my (expletive) neck!

“The movie is about North County and San Diego, and most most likely will be filmed listed here, on Highway 101 in Encinitas. Encinitas will be on the huge monitor! I It’s a coming-of-age, Spielberg-fulfills-John-Hughes movie, but with a tricky ‘R’ score. It will be actually amusing, but terrifying, and touch on what it is like to expand up in this article.”

“Strange Times” has now progressed into “Monsters of California” and characteristics audio composed by DeLonge, Angels & Airwaves co-chief Ilan Rubin and Rubin’s brother, Angels & Airwaves producer Aaron Rubin. It is not nonetheless identified if a soundtrack album will be launched.

Possibly way, “Monsters of California” gives DeLonge — who is at this time trying to find a distributor for the movie — with a massive-display screen platform. His Thursday assertion produced obvious he is keen to share some of his discoveries as the founder of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, the Encinitas corporation he released in 2017 to check out the “outer edges of science” and UFOs in particular.

“In current several years,” DeLonge mentioned in his Thursday statement, “I’ve had the very good fortune of serving to the (U.S.) authorities try to remember how much they treatment about UFOs via the operate we do at To The Stars, and it’s that working experience which assisted encourage this movie.

“I can’t wait around for audiences to see the (expletive) up exciting journey these kids go on.”