Avril Lavigne Announces She Will Adapt Song ‘Sk8er Boi’ Into A Film

In 2022, it will officially be 20 years since Avril Lavigne’s track ‘Sk8er Boi’ was released, and in celebration of that, the 37-year-old singer has revealed that her hit song is being made into a movie to celebrate the 20^th anniversary. She was only 15 years old when she signed with LA Reid, which is the same executive who signed Justin Bieber when he was also 15 years old. Within months, Avril Lavigne found major success after she wrote her debut album ‘Let Go’ at the age of 16; this album is her most iconic, and is also the one consisting of the track ‘Sk8er Boi’, a pop-punk anthem encouraging people not to abide by society’s expectations.

The news of ‘Sk8er Boi’ being transformed into a movie came from ‘She Is The Voice’ podcast on iHeart Radio. Avril Lavigne said, “A lot of people have been asking me to play this song on TV shows, it keeps getting brought back up. And I’m actually going to turn this song into a film! And just take it to the next level.”

The singer admitted that this song is still one of her “favourite songs to play live,” she said, “In high school you have all these groups and cliques… it’s a missed opportunity at love. The skater boy is in love with the preppy girl and she’s too cool for him… down the road she wishes she had followed her heart and not society’s expectations.”

Back in 2003, Billboard had reported that Paramount Pictures had hired writer David Zabel to adapt the famous song’s story into a movie. Unfortunately, that never happened, but with this recent announcement, we can look forward to Avril’s venture into filmmaking and expect great things!

Avril Lavigne will also be releasing her newest album in February of 2022; she is reported to be going back to her roots for her newest tracks, with the lead single called ‘Bite Me’ featuring Blink-182 Travis Barker.