Not that American Idiot wasn't an epic project, but Green Day have declared that their next album will be "an event, not just putting a record out." "We've started to get together and work on a bunch of cool projects," the band wrote in a post on its official site. Billie Joe Armstrong confirmed to MTV News that the band is working on ideas and demos for a follow-up to American Idiot. "At this point, to put out a record with like 12 songs on it and turn it in sounds a bit boring for us," he said. "So we definitely want to make something that is well thought-out and [that] all of our blood is put into."

Green Day is also continuing to work on an American Idiot movie. "It's definitely going to happen," he said.

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