Overview
- Netflix’s trailer, released Friday, previews Marty, Life Is Short with never-before-seen home videos and a global debut set for May 12.
- Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the film is produced by Sara Bernstein, Meredith Kaulfers, Christopher St. John, Justin Wilkes and Blair Foster, with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard as executive producers through Imagine Documentaries.
- The trailer features tributes from Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks and John Mulaney, with Catherine O’Hara appearing via an interview recorded before her January death.
- The documentary highlights Short’s decades in comedy alongside family tragedies, including the recent death of his daughter, Katherine Hartley Short, which the family confirmed was by suicide.
- Short’s alter ego Jiminy Glick pops up in the trailer to joke about the boom in comedian documentaries, signaling how Netflix is positioning this as a definitive portrait backed by extensive archives and star testimony.