A pack of trained guard dogs is the monster in Junkyard. Jade Pettyjohn plays Sam, who trespasses into a remote scrap yard with her friends looking for something she has lost, and Joel McHale has been cast as the corrupt sheriff who turns a dangerous night into a far worse one. Deadline broke the casting.
George Lopez plays the junkyard’s owner, the man giving the dogs their orders. Dan Riesser directs from a script he wrote with Mike L. Kinshella, and production is set to begin in Atlanta in spring 2027.
McHale Goes From Woodsboro to the Scrap Yard
McHale came into the genre through Scream 7, where he played Mark, the husband of Sidney Prescott. Riesser has been in the genre before: he directed Stomping Ground, the 2015 Bigfoot picture starring The Evil Dead’s Theresa Tilly.
Firebook Entertainment Is Producing
John Moss of Firebook Entertainment is producing alongside Jason Arsenault and Jason Scott Goldberg, with Jaime Gallagher co-producing.
The killer-dog film is a thin shelf in horror, and most of what is on it, Cujo and The Pack included, is about animals going wrong on their own. Putting a handler behind them is the harder and nastier version, because then the dogs are only doing what somebody taught them to do.
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