GoKawiilNeon releases first trailer for Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial'
A trailer has dropped for 'Artificial,' the Luca Guadagnino-directed film about Sam Altman's brief 2023 ouster and reinstatement at OpenAI, starring Andrew Garfield as the CEO. The footage leans into an unsettling, horror-tinged tone, with Garfield's Altman warning that 'countries will fall' and industries will collapse while wandering past a bunker full of weapons. The movie, also featuring Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Ike Barinholtz, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Rylance, opens in theaters on Christmas Day.
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The film's rocky path to release, dropped by Amazon MGM after its $50 billion OpenAI investment and passed on by Netflix, A24 and Focus before Neon picked it up, shows how tangled corporate ties to AI companies can complicate cultural depictions of their leaders. That a dramatized, unflattering take on Altman is reaching screens just three years after the actual boardroom crisis also signals how quickly Silicon Valley turmoil is being turned into mainstream entertainment.
- Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in 'Artificial,' directed by Luca Guadagnino, out Christmas Day.
- The trailer dramatizes Altman's 2023 firing and reinstatement at OpenAI with an eerie, horror-like tone.
- Amazon MGM dropped the project after its massive OpenAI investment, and Netflix, A24 and Focus also passed before Neon took it on.
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