The story of Scorpions, the German band whose music crossed the Iron Curtain, is heading to American movie screens. Deadline reports that Roadside Attractions has acquired the North American rights to Wind of Change, the band’s completed biopic, and plans to bring it to U.S. theaters in March 2027.
American audiences get the film second. It opens first at home, where Warner Bros. Germany puts it in German theaters on January 28, 2027.
The movie follows three friends bound by a love of rock and roll who climb from the rubble of post-World War II Germany to worldwide fame in the 1980s. Woven through their rise is the story of a close friend trapped on the Soviet side of the Berlin Wall, a role played by David Kross as Andrej.
The title comes from the band’s 1991 ballad “Wind of Change,” written after Scorpions’ late-1980s trips into the Soviet Union and embraced around the world as the Cold War came to an end. The film draws on the catalog that made them stars, including “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and “Still Loving You.”
Alexander Dreymon, known to many viewers as Uhtred of The Last Kingdom, plays guitarist Rudolf Schenker. Ludwig Trepte takes the role of singer Klaus Meine, with Ed Speleers as guitarist Matthias Jabs and Luke Brandon Field as drummer Herman Rarebell. Dominic West rounds out the central cast as Doc McGhee, the band’s manager.
Alex Ranarivelo directed the film from a screenplay by Mark Andrews. It was produced by Ali Afshar, Christina Moore and Daniel Aspromonte of ESX Entertainment for Fox Entertainment Studios, in association with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and cameras rolled in England in early 2025, at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and in Liverpool.
More than six decades after Schenker formed the band in Hanover, Scorpions remain one of the biggest-selling rock acts Germany has produced, with more than 110 million albums sold. An exact date for the March release has not been announced yet.