Funny Full Trailer for ‘Good Fortune’ with Keanu Reeves & Aziz Ansari
by Alex Billington
July 23, 2025
Source: YouTube
“Why don’t you go tough it out for a few days?!” Lionsgate has unveiled the official trailer for the comedy Good Fortune, written and directed by Aziz Ansari, directing his first film after eps of “Master of None” previously. Set for release in October in theaters this fall if anyone wants to catch this. A well-meaning but rather inept angel named “Gabriel” meddles with the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist. He takes a liking to a simple gig worker named Arj who sometimes does tasks for the very wealthy VC named Jeff. He makes them trade places to understand money won’t solve problems, but when it does, he loses his wings and must join them down on Earth as their roommate. There’s probably more lessons to be learned, but it’s hard to tell from this trailer. Keanu Reeves stars as the angel Gabriel, along with Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, plus Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh, and Stephen McKinley Henderson, too. This doesn’t look any better than the teaser, but I’m hoping there’s some actually good humor in it. Otherwise, I’d rather rewatch the Eddie Murphy comedy classic Trading Places again, which is pretty much the same plot.
Here’s the main official trailer (+ posters) for Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune, direct from YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune right here for the first look again.
Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) is a “budget guardian angel” named Gabriel. One day, he notices a man down on his luck (Aziz Ansari), who does odd jobs for a wealthy socialite named Jeff (Seth Rogen) who is a Venture Capitalist. Once the man falls asleep sitting in a booth at a Denny’s, he hits rock-bottom after subsequently having his car towed from their parking lot. Intervening in his plight, Gabriel tries to convince the man that being wealthy like Jeff would not solve his problems by swapping the two men’s lives. Failing at this demonstration as the man’s problems are solved by Jeff’s wealth, Gabriel loses his wings and is sent down to Earth to live among humans, while the man takes over Jeff’s body and livelihood. Gabriel then becomes roommates with the displaced Jeff, as all the good work he did as an angel begins to unravel around them.
Good Fortune is written and directed by Indian-American actor / comedian / producer / filmmaker Aziz Ansari, making his feature directorial debut with this, after directing episodes of his own series “Master of None” previously; he also wrote episodes of “Master of None” and the TV movie Dangerously Delicious, plus other comedy writing over the years. It’s produced by Aziz Ansari, Brady Fujikawa, Jon Humphrey, Anthony Katagas, David Koplan, and Alan Yang. Lionsgate will debut Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune movie in theaters nationwide starting on October 17th, 2025 later this fall. First impression? Look funny enough?