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Former punk band Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge is directing Monsters of California, a coming of age SF tale that he co-wrote with Ian Miller.

Production is underway on the movie, in which teenager Dallas Edwards, played by newcomer Jack Samson, and his derelict friends on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern California.  The truths they uncover begin to unravel extraordinary secrets held tightly within the deepest levels of the Government. Richard Kind stars alongside Casper Van Dien, Arianne Zucker, Gabrielle Haugh and Camille Kostek.

“I have been playing this story in my dreams for decades,” DeLonge explained to Deadline.  “It represents all aspects of my strange existence, including growing up in San Diego suburbia as a disaffected teenage skateboarder.  I had a tight tribe of friends who never missed an opportunity to piss people off and made me laugh so hard I would cry.  The camaraderie, curiosity, angst and irreverence is everything that lead me to Blink-182 and this story is layered with my obsession with the tightly blurred lines between science and science fiction.”