Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI film seems to have found its Elon Musk. The Challengers director is currently in talks with The Studio star Ike Barinholtz to play the billionaire Tesla CEO in his upcoming film Artifical, according to Deadline. The Amazon MGM Studios film centers around the drama behind the inception of CEO Sam Altman’s artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, which created ChatGPT. Sources have told Deadline that the movie is a comedic drama that focuses on a tumultuous period of time for the company in 2023, when CEO Sam Altman was fired then rehired within days. Barinholtz would be joining a star-studded cast, including Golden Globe winner Andrew Garfield (as Altman), Oscar-nominated Anora breakout star Yura Borisov, and Golden Globe nominee Cooper Koch, who starred as Erik Menendez in Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. This film is the latest of Guadagnino’s collaborations with Amazon MGM following the success of Challengers, Bones and All, and Suspiria. This casting announcement comes as rivals Musk and Altman are currently at each other’s throats while vying for Trump’s attention. Despite co-founding OpenAI together in 2015, alongside a handful of prominent Silicon Valley figures, the two billionaires have become nemeses in recent years.
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