East Bay Punk Music Drama ‘Out Come the Wolves,’ Based on Rancid Album, Finds Cast (Exclusive)

Up-and-comers Orlando Norman and Spence Moore II along with Heidi Grace Engerman and Cassady McClincy Zhang are starring in Out Come the Wolves, an indie drama which is marking the directorial debut of producer Danny Peykoff.

Sam Rechner, West Mulholland and Curran Walters are also cast in the feature that began shooting in Portland, Oregon this week. Big Newport Studios, founded by Peykoff, is financing and backing the production, which is also the company’s inaugural project.

Set against the East Bay punk music scene in 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 tight-knit group of high school friends vying to escape the blighted city in which they live. Getting away isn’t so easy, however, when the streets are full of metaphorical predators and prophets at every turn and the story, following the teens, will ask who manages to get away and who will be devoured when the wolves come out to hunt.

The drama is inspired by the 1995 album of the same name from punk rock band Rancid and written by Peykoff and Jason and Jamie Neese. The twin brothers are known for their work on Umbrella Academy and Cruel Summer. Peykoff is executive producing Kevin Costner’s Western trilogy, Horizon: An American Saga, while the Neese are co-producing those movies.

Peykoff and the Neese brothers are producing Wolves along with Glenn Kleczkowski and Paul Hadad.

Norman next appears in Amazon’s upcoming feature The Map that Leads to You directed by Lasse Hallström and can also be seen in season 2 of Apple TV’s post-apocalyptic series Silo.

Moore played young “Damian Anderson” (portrayed by Jonathan Majors as an adult) in Michael B. Jordan’s hit Creed III. Other credits include Berlanti Productions’ All American and Superman & Lois for The CW, Grownish and Lee Daniel’s The Wonder Years for ABC.

Engerman made a grisly appearance 2021’s Candyman. Since then, she has appeared in Power Book IV: Force for Starz, Chicago Fire for NBC, and The Bold and the Beautiful for CBS.

Zhang is best known for her long-running series regular role as “Lydia” in AMC’s The Walking Dead.  She is also known for her role as the young “Molly Strand” (portrayed by Melanie Lynskey as an adult) in the first season of Hulu’s critically acclaimed Castle Rock. 

Elsewhere, Rechner appeared in Universal Pictures’ The Fablemans directed by Steven Spielberg, whle Mulholland  will next be seen in the highly anticipated Steven Soderbergh horror thriller Presence. Walters is best known for his role as “Robin” and “Red Hood” in the DC series Titans.

Norman is repped by Independent Talent Group while Moore is repped by Independent Artist Group, Venture Entertainment Partners, and Goodman, Genow.

Engerman is repped by Stewart Talent, and Sloane, Offer and Zhang is repped by CESD Talent Agency and Untitled Entertainment.

Rechner is repped by CAA and Marquee Management, Mulholland by Seven Summits Pictures & Management and Osbrink Talent Agency, and Walters by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Coast to Coast.