Janel Parrish, Leslie David Baker, Erinn Hayes to Star in Dark Comedy Stockholm Squad (Exclusive)
Janel Parrish, Leslie David Baker and Erinn Hayes lead a forthcoming feature centering on a kidnapping. Production has wrapped on writer-director Alec Bewkes’ dark comedy Stockholm Squad, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Parrish (Pretty Little Liars, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), Baker (The Office) and Hayes (Children’s Hospital) lead the ensemble cast that…
Janel Parrish, Leslie David Baker and Erinn Hayes lead a forthcoming feature centering on a kidnapping.
Production has wrapped on writer-director Alec Bewkes’ dark comedy Stockholm Squad, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Parrish (Pretty Little Liars, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), Baker (The Office) and Hayes (Children’s Hospital) lead the ensemble cast that also includes Bewkes, Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek) and Malia Pyles (Baskets).
Stockholm Squad follows six kidnapped strangers who get locked in a basement and attempt to connect amid the chaos. The movie is described as a mash-up of The Breakfast Club and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Bewkes makes his feature directorial debut with the indie film that he also wrote and produces for Hang Six Films. The project’s producers include Bennett Cordon for Salt Cellar Films, alongside Thomas Cross. Lucas Ford and Colin Oh are executive producers. Hang Six Films handles sales for the movie that is currently in post-production after a 16-day shoot 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 tells THR in a statement. “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 short film Shut Up, Jack that premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. He starred in the project alongside fellow castmembers Anand Mahalingam, Linnea Bullion, Ricky Wilson and Rahne Avant.
