{"id":913897,"date":"2026-11-11T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913897\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:04:09","slug":"jade-pettyjohn-george-lopez-joel-mchale-to-star-in-junkyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913897\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Pettyjohn, George Lopez &#038; Joel McHale To Star In &#8216;Junkyard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jade-pettyjohn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jade-pettyjohn\" data-tag=\"jade-pettyjohn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jade Pettyjohn<\/a> (Little Fires Everywhere), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-lopez\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-lopez\" data-tag=\"george-lopez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Lopez<\/a> (Blue Beetle) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joel-mchale\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joel-mchale\" data-tag=\"joel-mchale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel McHale<\/a> (Animal Control) have signed on for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/junkyard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_junkyard\" data-tag=\"junkyard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junkyard<\/a>, an indie horror-thriller from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dan-riesser\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dan-riesser\" data-tag=\"dan-riesser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Riesser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn Emmy-nominated director\/producer on E! Entertainment\u2019s The Soup during McHale\u2019s hosting run from 2005 to 2015, Riesser\u2019s film follows Sam (Pettyjohn), a strong-willed young woman who trespasses into a secluded scrap yard alongside her misfit friends, in search of something she\u2019s lost. Soon, the friends find themselves trapped in a deadly fight for survival against a pack of bloodthirsty, well-trained guard dogs commanded by the mysterious junkyard owner (Lopez). McHale plays a corrupt sheriff who shows up and turns the dangerous situation into something far worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRiesser, who previously co-wrote and directed the Bigfoot hunt dramedy Stomping Ground, directs from a script co-written with Mike L. Kinshella. John Moss of Firebook Entertainment (Every Heavy Thing) will produce alongside Jason Arsenault (A Small Fortune) and Jason Scott Goldberg (Glorious), with Jaime Gallagher (Mistake) co-producing and overseeing casting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduction kicks off in Atlanta next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPettyjohn, who has most recently been seen on the shows Grey\u2019s Anatomy, The Rookie, Doctor Odyssey and Monster, is repped by Innovative Artists, Range Media Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber &amp; Dern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLopez, the stand-up, actor and producer of George Lopez fame, is repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost recently seen starring in Fox\u2019s Animal Control, which returned for its fifth season in September, McHale is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jade Pettyjohn (Little Fires Everywhere), George Lopez (Blue Beetle) and Joel McHale (Animal Control) have signed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[381756,88,68480,381757,184043,33388,206],"class_list":["post-913897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dan-riesser","tag-entertainment","tag-george-lopez","tag-jade-pettyjohn","tag-joel-mchale","tag-junkyard","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}