Kristen Stewart is back in the frame as Frankie in The Wrong Girls, and the trailer gives her a talking cat problem voiced by Seth Rogen. Alia Shawkat plays Molly, and the pair spend the clip running from a man shooting at them before the story rewinds to the day they found trouble. Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut is now headed for theaters on August 14, 2026.
Dylan Meyer’s debut
Kristen Stewart is also one of the film’s producers, which puts her in the rare position of steering the project on both sides of the camera. The trailer centers on Frankie and Molly, two codependent friends living paycheck to paycheck, and bong rip to bong rip, getting pulled into a case of mistaken identity that sends their lives into chaos.
August 14, 2026 gives the film a long runway, and that matters because the teaser is doing the first job a rollout needs done: establish the tone before the release date arrives. The setup is blunt enough to sell the premise fast — a weird-cosmos comedy built around two broke stoners, a mysterious substance, and a cat named Dio.
Frankie and Molly
Frankie and Molly stumble on that substance in the green room of a live music venue, then consume it and trigger the trailer’s stranger turns. The story does not stay in one lane after that; it starts as a weed-fueled comedy and quickly folds in a shooting as the two drive away, which gives the premise some real friction instead of a single-note gag reel.
Seth Rogen’s Dio is the hinge. Once the cat enters the story, the trailer shifts from a buddy-comedy setup to a more chaotic mistaken-identity engine, with the strange events following the substance’s use becoming the mechanism that throws the pair off course.
Neon and the cast
LaKeith Stanfield, Kumail Nanjiani, Zack Fox, Tony Hale, Geena Davis, Kate McKinnon, Thomas Nicholson, Thor Knai, Thomas La Barbera Christensen, Cate Blanchett, and Sugar Lyn Beard are also in the film, and that spread of names signals a broader ensemble around Stewart and Shawkat. For a first-time director, that is a heavy bench to manage, especially in a project that has to balance plot mechanics with a comic tone.
Neon has The Wrong Girls positioned as an upcoming release, and the trailer’s job is to turn a strange premise into a sellable one. It does that by making Frankie and Molly’s bad decision feel like the start of a chain reaction, not just a joke, and that is the line the marketing needs to hold until August 14, 2026.
