Seth Rogen wants to make great television with his upcoming Apple TV+ show The Studio, out March 26. But doing so means his character Matt Remick has to be saddled with the desire to make great movies, while also being hyper-aware of the pressure that comes with leading a film studio. In the latest trailer for the series, Remick’s trial-and-error takes place in front of an eclectic group of Hollywood figures, from Greta Lee and Martin Scorsese to Olivia Wilde and Ice Cube.
“I’m honored, obviously, to be one of the people who gets to choose which movies get made and which ones don’t,” Remick says in the trailer. “And I got into all this because, you know, I love movies. But now I have this fear that my job is to ruin them.”
And he does ruin one — maybe not the entire production, but a crucial scene starring Lee. “Lay low, OK? There’s zero margin for error on this show,” Amy (Catherine O’Hara) tells him. Moments later, Remick walks directly into Lee’s shot to talk to her about clearing her schedule for awards season as soon as the director calls action. “This job, it’s just so much harder than I thought it was gonna be,” he confides in Sal Seperstein, played by Ike Barinholtz. “Everyone wants something from me and I can’t give it to them.”
The Studio will feature special guest appearances across all 10 of its episodes. The series also stars Kathryn Hahn, Chase Sui Wonders, Bryan Cranston, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, and Dewayne Perkins.
“As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films,” a synopsis of the series reads. “With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe.”
From Rolling Stone US
