KJ Apa will soon be shooting an upcoming Sublime biopic.
As announced on Thursday (September 19), the Riverdale The star has been cast to play the late Bradley Nowell in Justin Chon's film about the Long Beach band. With a script written by Chon and Bobby Hundreds – based on an original draft by Chris Mundy – the 3000 Pictures film counts original band members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson as executive producers, along with Nowell's wife Troy, and his son, Jakob.
Reposting the news on his Instagram HistoryApa expressed his gratitude for the role by simply typing a series of heart emojis.
The casting development comes just months after the surviving members of Sublime reunited at Coachella with Jakob performing as lead singer in place of his father. The band broke up in 1996 when Bradley died of a heroin overdose, after which Gaugh and Wilson began playing with Rome Ramirez under the name Sublime With Rome.
“I love you dad,” Jacob he is reported to have said at the end of their historical setting in the desert. “I love each and every one of you guys.”
Originally formed in California in 1988, Sublime didn't experience a major chart breakthrough until shortly after Bradley's death, when the trio's self-titled third album reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200. The ska group's debut LP 40 oz. to Freedom it then charted, reaching No. 140.
Sublime had just one song reach the Billboard Hot 100: “Doin' Time,” which remains one of the trio's most enduring hits, along with “Santeria.” The song reached No. 87 on the chart in 1997. More than 20 years later, Lana Del Rey's cover of the track reached No. 59 on the chart.
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