'The Boys' stars Jack Quaid, Jeffrey Dean Morgan reunite in 'Neighborhood Watch' trailer

Jeffrey Dean Morgan left the set of The Boys season 4 in Toronto wishing he could have more scenes with Jack Quaid. The two previously worked on 2018's arcade game-based Rampage, though they never shared the screen and only met on the red carpet for the movie's premiere. They finally had more of a rapport on The Boys, Amazon's NSFW superhero satire, even though Quaid's Hughie Campbell didn't interact with Morgan's Joe Kessler. (The actor says, "If you know, you know.")

"We did have a few scenes together: him doing his best not to acknowledge my presence, and me trying not to laugh at his delivery of lines," Morgan tells Entertainment Weekly over email. "We’d talk between shots...and really? Truth? Not only very talented...but [I] quickly learned Jacky is one of the most genuinely sweet people I've ever met, not just on a set, mind you. I'm talking ever."

A month or two after flying back from Toronto, Morgan got his wish. Quaid texted him to ask the Walking Dead alum to read a script. It was a two-hander written by Sean Farley, titled Nowhere Men. Quaid was to play Simon, a young man struggling with mental illness who witnesses a woman being abducted. Morgan would then play the older guy, Ed, Simon's next-door neighbor and a retired security guard. When the police don't take the kidnapping seriously, the pair team up to solve the crime.

Now titled Neighborhood Watch, EW can exclusively reveal the first trailer (shown above) for what came together. "This was true indie filmmaking. No budget, such a small crew," Morgan says. "I’d not done a film like this in 40 years. We had a blast. Script was built that way, but Jack elevated the material and the fun. We shot the film in three weeks and share the screen in about 99 percent of film, so it was a crash course in brotherhood."

Neighborhood Watch, also starring Malin Akerman, will be released through RLJE Films this April 25, both in theaters and on demand. But back in 2024, before the title change, Quaid had similar things to say about Morgan. "He's unbelievable," he told EW in May of last year. "Obviously he's the greatest, everybody knows that, but I got very lucky to experience that firsthand on a number of occasions now."

Both actors were also drawn to the material because of the director. Duncan Skiles previously made 2018's The Clovehitch Killer, inspired by the real-life story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. This time around with Neighborhood Watch, Skiles says, "I drew inspiration from two seminal '80s action dramedies, Midnight Run and Something Wild. Both feature unlikely partnerships and manage big tonal swings while keeping the characters firmly at the center. The technical approach always serves character and emotion."

With cinematographer Luke McCoubrey, he developed a visual language that relied on "naturalistic lighting, primarily normal lenses, and restrained camera work," Skiles says. "There's something about stories of unlikely friends facing crazy trials together that gets to me," he adds. "I cry at the end of Sideways and Paper Moon and Midnight Run, and I teared up when first reading Neighborhood Watch. The relationship between Ed and Simon is what pulled me in. Every choice we made served to amplify that emotional connection."