Chris Rock is a man of many talents. He's an actor, a comedian, a writer, an Oscars host, the voice of Marty in Madagascar, and — as of 2015's Top F
Chris Rock is a man of many talents. He’s an actor, a comedian, a writer, an Oscars host, the voice of Marty in Madagascar, and — as of 2015’s Top Five — a critically acclaimed filmmaker to boot. All of which has made recent years’ announcements that Rock is working on multiple directorial projects — including a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic and an English-language remake of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round — very exhilarating indeed. Also among the many buns in Rock’s artistic oven is an as-yet-untitled A24 movie, currently in production in Los Angeles — and it’s just set one hell of a cast.
Per Deadline‘s reporting, Rock’s movie — at one stage provisionally titled Misty Green — has set Slow Horses fan favourite Rosalind Eleazar to play Misty, with Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Anna Kendrick all aboard to star alongside in roles that are currently being kept under wraps. They’ll all star alongside Rock himself in the movie, who’s directing the project from a self-penned script. As for what the movie is actually about, details are pretty vague at the moment, though Deadline‘s reporting sets out that Eleazar’s Misty is a talented actor who’s offered a chance at a comeback by an elderly acquaintance after her career hits the skids. What caused the derailing, and who the mysterious figure from Misty’s past is, is anyone’s guess at this point — as is how Driver, Kaluuya, and Kendrick factor into the plot.
Admittedly, beyond the LA shoot, the role call, and an all-too-brief logline, we haven’t got a hell of a lot to go on just yet in terms of what precisely Rock is cooking here. But Top Five showed the legendary funnyman’s ability to mine his lived experiences and insider knowledge of the industry to great cinematic effect, and the man’s certainly had no shortage of recent additions to the inspiration pool in the decade since that movie, so we fully expect something even sharper and more satirically incisive from Rock’s latest. Watch this space!
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