Walking Dead actor Ryan Hurst joins Danny Peykoff’s Out Comes the Wolves

Sons of Anarchy and Walking Dead Actor Ryan Hurst has been announced for Danny Peykoff’s directorial debut, Out came the wolves. The film, set during the East Bay’s punk music scene, also stars Walking Dead alum Cassady McClincy Zhang.

Director Danny Peykoff, known for his work on Kevin Costner’s series of Horizon movie, wrote the story with Jason and Jamie Neese (Umbrella Academy, Cruel Summer). Filming for the project recently began in Portland, Oregon and a casting call was made for background punk actors who were instructed to “Make sure to include pictures with your best punk look and outfit.”

The Hollywood Reporter newly announced Hurst, Giancarlo Esposito, Harold Perrineau and Taryn Manning have been added to the previously announced cast, Zhang, Orlando Norman, Spence Moore II, Heidi Grace Engerman. West Mullholland, Sam Rechner and Curran Walters have also been cast in the film.

Out come the wolves follows Norman, Moore, Engerman and Zhang, a group of friends with a strong bond, during the 1990s East Bay punk scene. They yearn to escape the violence and desperation of their city to fulfill their dreams.

Esposito has been cast as a ruthless mid-level kingpin with Perrineau as Moore’s father who wants his son to become a professional baseball player. Norman’s mother is portrayed by Manning, a woman who makes it well known that she never wanted a child. And Hurst plays a homeless addict with prophetic insight.

Out Comes the Wolves Official Synopsis:

“Set against the East Bay punk music scene of the mid-1990s, Wolves is a story of grit and dreams in a world of violence and desperation. Norman, Moore, Engerman and Zhang play a close-knit group of high school friends who vie to however, escaping the depraved city they live in is not so easy when the streets are full of metaphorical predators and prophets at every turn, and the story that follows the teenagers will ask who manages to escape away, and who will be devoured when the wolves come out to hunt.”

Hurst made a name for himself in his portrayal of Opie Winston on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He has also been praised for his role as Beta in The Walking Dead.

His recent roles include the sci-fi thriller, Desert Road, The Southern Noir thriller Desperation Road, and as Terry Luca in seasons 3-6 of SWAT Hurst also portrayed Milligan in the Disney adventure drama The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Hurst has been cast in Neflix’s The abandoned, which also stars TWDU alum Michael Greyeyes. The series is a western that chronicles the journey of families pursuing Manifest Destiny in Oregon in the 1950s. The series recently made headlines with the departure of Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, who served as creator, showrunner and executive producer. According to Deadlineefilming for the series was just weeks from wrapping.

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