When the sheriff arrives in Junkyard, Sam and her friends have already broken into a scrap yard and found themselves trapped with its guard dogs. In most movies that’s when somebody opens the gate. In this one the sheriff is corrupt, and his arrival makes their chances of getting out worse.
Joel McHale plays the sheriff, and George Lopez plays the owner whose guard dogs take their orders from him.
Jade Pettyjohn plays Sam. The production company, Firebook Entertainment, gives her a specific reason to go looking through the yard: she wants her late father’s car back. She brings friends along to retrieve it.
McHale plays the sheriff for a director who knows his timing from a very different job. Dan Riesser was a director and producer on The Soup while McHale hosted the show. Riesser went on to make Stomping Ground, a Bigfoot film about a couple whose hometown visit turns into a hunt in the woods.
Riesser wrote Junkyard with Mike L. Kinshella. The casting announcement puts the start of filming in Atlanta in spring 2027.
