Overview
- Amazon MGM released the first official trailer on Tuesday, August 25, confirming the project’s title, tone and public rollout.
- Sacha Baron Cohen wrote, produced and makes his feature directorial debut on Ali G: Who Iz I?, reuniting him with Amazon MGM after his Borat sequel.
- The trailer presents the film as a concealed, fly-on-the-wall mockumentary that followed Ali G for more than a year and uses real people rather than actors.
- Morgana Robinson appears in the trailer as Ali G’s long-term girlfriend, who is shown eight months pregnant, a plot point that drives his return to America in the film’s premise.
- The revival spotlights both Cohen’s hidden-camera method that produced hits like Borat and questions about whether the prank format and Ali G’s culturally appropriative persona will resonate or provoke in 2026 given social media and public recognition.