After years of darker prestige swings and IP fatigue crowding out theatrical comedy, David Wain’s latest feels like a deliberate throwback to the gleefully ridiculous studio comedy Hollywood barely makes anymore. The first trailer for “Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass” leans hard into that anarchic energy too — celebrity satire, absurdist violence, mistaken identities, Italian assassins, and an increasingly deranged hunt through Los Angeles for Jon Hamm playing a heightened version of himself.
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The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it quickly became one of the breakout comedy titles of the lineup. That debut also marked Wain’s sixth feature premiere at Sundance, arriving almost exactly 25 years after “Wet Hot American Summer” first bowed at the festival back in 2001 and cemented the filmmaker’s cult-comedy credentials.
Written by Ken Marino and Wain, the film follows small-town hairdresser Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) after her fiancé Tom cheats on her with his “celebrity pass.” Spiraling after the betrayal, Gail heads to Los Angeles with her friend Otto, where a psychic convinces her the only way to repair the relationship is to “even the scales” by sleeping with her own celebrity hall pass: Jon Hamm. Naturally, the plan turns into a sprawling Hollywood odyssey involving paparazzi, talent agents, actor John Slattery playing himself, and contract killers somehow entering the equation.
The cast is stacked with longtime comedy-ringers and newer breakout names, including Hamm, Slattery, Marino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Joe Lo Truglio, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Richard Kind, Michael Ian Black, Fred Melamed, Ben Wang, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Zac Oyama, and more. The film also continues the decades-long creative partnership between Marino and Wain, whose collaborations include “Role Models,” “Wanderlust,” “The Ten,” and the cult sketch-comedy roots of “The State.”
Wain’s last several years have bounced between television and streaming projects, but “Gail Daughtry” feels closer in spirit to the loose, manic ensemble comedies that first defined his career. The trailer plays like a collision between old-school studio farce and modern celebrity self-parody, with Hamm and Slattery clearly enjoying the chance to weaponize their public personas.
Sony Pictures Classics releases “Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass” in theaters July 10. The film will also screen at the Tribeca Festival on June 10. Watch the trailer below.
