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), Leslie David Baker (The Office), Erinn Hayes (Children’s Hospital) lead the ensemble cast that also includes Bewkes, Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek) and Malia Pyles (Baskets).
Stockholm Squad centers on 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 shooting 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 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 is set to premiere next month at the 2026 Tribeca Festival. He stars in the project alongside fellow castmembers Anand Mahalingam, Linnea Bullion, Ricky Wilson and Rahne Avant.
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