Deadline has reported that the indie feature drama "Friend Thing" has assembled its principal cast, with Alfie Williams ("28 Years Later") and Ryan Kiera Armstrong ("The Lowdown") taking the lead roles. Comedians and actors Pete Holmes, Lewis Black and Adam Ray are set to co-star. The film is being produced by Society, the production company founded by commercial director Harry Calbom, with shooting due to begin in Seattle in August 2026.

Set in Seattle in the spring of 1996, during the city's grunge-era cultural peak, the story follows fourteen-year-old Ernie Calder, a scholarship pupil at an elite Catholic school who is torn between old friendships and a charismatic new girl before a family tragedy forces him to reassess his priorities. Lewis Black plays exacting headmaster Father Briggs, Holmes plays a homeroom teacher who acts as the school's moral compass, and Ray — also an executive producer — plays real Seattle radio DJ Marco Collins. The film is produced by Calbom, Ladd Moore, Bryce Cyrier and Honna Kimmerer.