Everything Goes Wrong in the Trailer for Judd Apatow’s Star-Studded COVID Comedy
After a very meta tease earlier this week in the form of a trailer for a nonexistent movie, Netflix released the actual trailer for Judd Apatow’s upcoming pandemic comedy, The Bubble, on Friday.
In case you missed it, we were all left scratching our heads on Wednesday when the streamer dropped a teaser for a Jurassic-Park-esque film with the obviously fake name Cliff Beasts 6. The clip turned out to be a precursor to the full trailer for Apatow’s The Bubble, a satire about the doomed production of a blockbuster franchise film during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bubble stars Karen Gillan and Pedro Pascal as the leads in a dinosaur movie called–you guessed it–Cliff Beasts 6 (ridiculously subtitled The Battle for Everest: Memories of a Requiem). Leslie Mann, Apatow’s real-life wife, and David Duchovny play a divorced Hollywood couple starring together in the action film. Keegan-Michael Key and Iris Apatow also play Cliff Beasts actors. Iris is Apatow and Mann’s youngest daughter, and as a child, she was an adorable scene-stealer in several of her father’s films. All grown up now, she makes her return to acting in the wake of older sister Maude’s buzzed-about turn in Euphoria.