Chris Rock's 'Misty Green' Trailer Turns the Camera on Hollywood Itself

Chris Rock is stepping back behind the camera for the first time in over a decade, and this time, he's not going for laughs. A24 dropped the first trailer for "Misty Green" today, and it's a sharp departure from the political and romantic comedies that defined his earlier directorial work. The film follows Misty (Rosalind Eleazar), an Emmy-winning actress whose once-promising career has stalled out, forcing her to claw her way back into an industry that's already written her off. Add a loaded ensemble — Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Rock himself — and a plot thread involving an on-set altercation that echoes Rock's own headline-making moment at the 2022 Oscars, and you've got a film that feels less like fiction and more like an insider's reckoning with Hollywood itself. "Misty Green" premieres at TIFF this September before A24 sends it into theaters in October — and if this trailer is any indication, it's positioning itself as one of the season's more provocative awards contenders.