Jay Baruchel has jumped on board writer/director Reginald Harkema’s The Rebel Kind,  a comic romancer about Buck Cherry, lead singer and guitarist for the 1980s Vancouver punk band The Modernettes.

Based on the memoir Guilty of Everything by John Armstrong, also known as Buck Cherry, Harkema will shoot the punk period feature from Optic Nerve Films in Vancouver in fall 2012.

Patrick Carroll and Kevin Eastwood are producing.

Harkema, who came to directing film after editing them, is best known for movie credits like Monkey Warfare, and Leslie, My Name is Evil.

He recently edited Goon, which was written by Baruchel and Evan Goldberg and directed by Michael Dowse.