{"id":300077,"date":"2025-07-29T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300077\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:46:10","slug":"chris-rock-casts-adam-driver-daniel-kaluuya-anna-kendrick-in-his-a24-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300077\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock Casts Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya & Anna Kendrick In His A24 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Rosalind Eleazar<\/a> (Slow Horses) has landed the lead role of Misty Green in Chris Rock<\/a>\u2018s first feature for A24<\/a>, a currently untitled project that Rock is starring in and helming from his own script. Others newly aboard to star include Adam Driver<\/a> (Megalopolis), Daniel Kaluuya<\/a> (Judas and the Black Messiah), and Anna Kendrick<\/a> (Another Simple Favor).<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently in production in Los Angeles, the film follows Misty Green, a gifted actress with a derailed career until someone from her past offers her a chance at a comeback. Character details for Driver, Kaluuya, and Kendrick are under wraps.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeter Rice, Rock and David Worthen Brooks are producing, with Nelson George, Shaum Sengupta and Miles Alva exec producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest known for her role of Louisa Guy on Apple\u2019s Emmy-winning series Slow Horses, led by Gary Oldman, Eleazar also recently starred in Netflix\u2019s Harben Coben thriller Missing You. Other TV credits include Class of \u201909 (FX) alongside Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara; Deep Water (ITV) with Anna Friel; the Starz miniseries Howards End with Matthew Macfadyen and Hayley Atwell; Rellik (BBC1) with Richard Dormer; and Harlots (Hulu\/ITV) opposite Liv Tyler, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown Findlay. Also seen in Armando Iannucci\u2019s The Personal History of David Copperfield, she is repped by The Artists Partnership, Principal Entertainment LA, and Telescope Agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently seen starring in Michael Mann\u2019s Ferrari and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Megalopolis, Driver\u2019s upcoming slate also includes Jim Jarmusch\u2019s Father Mother Sister Brother, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival; James Gray\u2019s Paper Tiger, where he stars opposite Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller; and the Apple series The Dealer, where he\u2019s set to star opposite Jessica Chastain. He is repped by WME and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince winning an Oscar for his starring turn in Judas and the Black Messiah, Kaluuya has starred in Jordan Peele\u2019s Nope and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and directed The Kitchen for Netflix alongside Kibwe Tavares. Upcoming, he\u2019s set to produce a live-action Barney movie under his 59% Productions banner, in partnership with Mattel and A24. He is repped by WME, B Side, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently seen starring in Amazon MGM\u2019s Another Simple Favor, and in her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Netflix\u2019s Woman of the Hour, Kendrick is repped by CAA, Range Media, and attorney Todd Rubenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) has landed the lead role of Misty Green in Chris Rock\u2018s first feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[21211,110989,15070,4080,110990,110991,77,110992,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-adam-driver","10":"tag-anna-kendrick","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-chris-rock","13":"tag-daniel-kaluuya","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-rosalind-eleazar","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114934237438719670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}