Pete Holmes, Lewis Black, Alfie Williams & Ryan Kiera Armstrong Befriending Feature Drama ‘Friend Thing’

EXCLUSIVE: Alfie Williams (28 Years Later, Bone Temple) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Lowdown) will lead and Pete Holmes (Crashing, Woman of The Hour), Lewis Black (Inside Out, The Daily Show, Accepted), and Adam Ray (The Adam Ray Show, Jackass: Best and Last) will co-star in the indie feature drama Friend Thing.

Society, the production company founded by commercial director Harry Calbom, is behind the film.

Friend Thing is set in Seattle during the spring of 1996, at the height of the city’s cultural influence. Fourteen-year-old Ernie Calder, a thoughtful scholarship student at an elite Catholic school, finds himself torn between lifelong friendships and the allure of a charismatic new girl. As first love, social ambition, and heartbreak pull him in a new direction, a devastating family tragedy forces him to confront what truly matters. Against the backdrop of Seattle’s grunge era and the last years before the internet transformed adolescence, Friend Thing explores friendship, identity, loss, and belonging. Cameras roll in August in Seattle.

Williams starred as the lead of Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later and its sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta. He is represented by Gersh stateside and Independent Talent in the UK.

Armstrong starred opposite Jude Law in Disney+’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and has a recurring role opposite Ethan Hawke in FX’s The Lowdown. Her additional credits include It: Chapter Two, Black Widow, Firestarter, and American Horror Story: Red Tide. She is represented by Innovative Artists and Linden Entertainment.

Black plays Father Briggs, the school’s exacting headmaster. Ray, who also serves as an executive producer on the film, plays DJ Marco Collins, a real Seattle radio figure central to the story’s cultural world. Holmes plays Mr. Greeley, a homeroom teacher who’s quietly become the moral compass of a school built on faith he doesn’t share.

Friend Thing is produced by Calbom, Ladd Moore,  Bryce Cyrier, and Honna Kimmerer through Society.