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- But that’s exactly how Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial opens its first trailer, with Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman coming down a staircase into an arsenal before delivering an opening monologue about industries collapsing and countries falling.
- The footage, released Tuesday by Neon, follows Garfield’s Altman through an eerily normal OpenAI workday that gradually turns into something colder.
- Aside from Garfield, the movie has now cast actors who play real people in their respective roles: Yura Borisov stars as Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI whose board sought to remove Altman in 2023; Monica Barbaro plays former CTO Mira Murati; and Cooper Hoffman plays board chair Greg Brockman.
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A basement full of machine guns is not where most biopics choose to introduce their subject. But that’s exactly how Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial opens its first trailer, with Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman coming down a staircase into an arsenal before delivering an opening monologue about industries collapsing and countries falling.
The footage, released Tuesday by Neon, follows Garfield’s Altman through an eerily normal OpenAI workday that gradually turns into something colder.
Garfield’s character describes opening “Pandora’s Box” together with his colleagues, framing what follows as inevitable. It’s a tone that sounds more like a psychological thriller than a corporate drama.
Aside from Garfield, the movie has now cast actors who play real people in their respective roles: Yura Borisov stars as Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI whose board sought to remove Altman in 2023; Monica Barbaro plays former CTO Mira Murati; and Cooper Hoffman plays board chair Greg Brockman.
Mark Rylance will play Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton, in a casting decision that had not been previously announced. Ike Barinholtz will take the role of Elon Musk.
After Amazon MGM Studios parted ways with Artificial in June, following an agreement with the company that would see Amazon MGM pour billions of dollars into OpenAI, Neon soon picked up the project and bought it for $20 million.
Following its successful run with Parasite and Anora, the new distributor has already set a concrete release date: a world premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 5, followed by a limited U.S. theatrical release on December 25 and a UK release on January 22, 2027.
Writer Simon Rich has said the script reaches back to the period before the 2023 leadership crisis, tracing the research relationships that helped build OpenAI in the first place.
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