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After a really meta tease earlier this week within the type of a trailer for a nonexistent film, Netflix launched the precisetrailer for Judd Apatow’s upcoming pandemic comedy, The Bubble, on Friday.
In case you missed it, we had been all left scratching our heads on Wednesday when the streamer dropped a teaser for a Jurassic-Park-esque movie with the clearly faux identify Cliff Beasts 6. The clip turned out to be a precursor to the total trailer for Apatow’s The Bubble, a satire in regards to the doomed manufacturing of a blockbuster franchise movie throughout the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bubble stars Karen Gillan and Pedro Pascal because the leads in a dinosaur film known as–you guessed it–Cliff Beasts 6 (ridiculously subtitled The Battle for Everest: Reminiscences of a Requiem). Leslie Mann, Apatow’s real-life spouse, and David Duchovny play a divorced Hollywood couple starring collectively within the motion movie. Keegan-Michael Key and Iris Apatow additionally play Cliff Beasts actors. Iris is Apatow and Mann’s youngest daughter, and as a baby, she was an lovely scene-stealer in a number of of her father’s movies. All grown up now, she makes her return to performing within the wake of older sister Maude’s buzzed-about flip in Euphoria.
Within the new trailer, nearly every thing that might go fallacious whereas making a film within the midst of a pandemic does, in reality, go fallacious. A movie exec performed by Kate McKinnon units the scene for chaos, Zooming in from a luxurious Italian locale to say, “We're certainly one of two films in manufacturing proper now. If we fail, the studio goes to go down.”
Because the pandemic worsens, the solid and crew of Cliff Beasts 6 get stranded in the UK, the place they’re filming, and try to navigate unfamiliar PPE gear and new security protocols. In a single hilariously relatable second, Fred Armisen, who performs the Cliff Beasts director, makes an attempt to obtain the required COVID-19 nasal swab take a look at, however retains backing out because the swab approaches his nostrils, swerving to keep away from its uncomfortable probe.
In the meantime, divorcees Mann and Duchovny are pressured to quarantine collectively, a vomit-inducing flu breaks out on set, and because the sole Gen Z solid member, Apatow’s character drives the remainder of the crew loopy along with her TikTok obsession. (Sidenote: if Apatow’s Crystal doesn't do the “Renegade” dance with a dinosaur, this movie can't be thought of a traditionally correct illustration of the pandemic.)
The ensemble solid is rounded out by Vir Das, Rob Delaney, Peter Serafinowicz, and Maria Bakalova in her first American movie look after receiving an Oscar nomination for her breakout position in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
The concept of a film in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic admittedly doesn’t instantly encourage laughs; you can argue that it’s too quickly for a comedy like this. However with an acclaimed, decades-long profession in comedy filmmaking beneath his belt, Apatow is well-positioned to take this sort of danger.
The Bubble hits Netflix on April 1.