Janel Parrish, Leslie David Baker and Erinn Hayes lead a forthcoming function centering on a kidnapping.
Manufacturing has wrapped on writer-director Alec Bewkes’ darkish comedy Stockholm Squad, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. Parrish (Fairly Little Liars, To All of the Boys I’ve Beloved Earlier than), Leslie David Baker (The Workplace), Erinn Hayes (Kids’s Hospital) lead the ensemble solid that additionally consists of Bewkes, Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek) and Malia Pyles (Baskets).
Stockholm Squad facilities on six kidnapped strangers who get locked in a basement and try to attach amid the chaos. The film is described as a mash-up of The Breakfast Membership and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Bewkes makes his function directorial debut with the indie film that he additionally wrote and produces for Cling Six Movies. The venture’s producers embrace Bennett Cordon for Salt Cellar Movies, alongside Thomas Cross. Lucas Ford and Colin Oh are govt producers. Cling Six Movies handles gross sales for the film that’s presently in post-production after capturing in Los Angeles.
“The goal was to make a feel-good comedy set in the last place you’d ever imagine to really sell the story’s message of hope and community,” Bewkes says in a press release. “I wanted to show that if kidnapped victims can find happiness in a dingy basement, then us surface folk can do the same up here.”
Bewkes helmed the brief movie Shut Up, Jack that’s set to premiere subsequent month on the 2026 Tribeca Competition. He stars within the venture alongside fellow castmembers Anand Mahalingam, Linnea Bullion, Ricky Wilson and Rahne Avant.
