Overview
- Final location shoots wrapped on Aug. 1 in Dolores Park, the Marina District, Lombard Street and North Beach, concluding the month-long San Francisco schedule.
- The $40 million feature centers on OpenAI’s 2023 leadership crisis, with Andrew Garfield portraying ousted and reinstated CEO Sam Altman.
- Monica Barbaro is cast as former CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov plays ex-chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz appears as Elon Musk.
- Amazon MGM Studios and Eternal Leo Productions jointly led the production, extending a trend of major films utilizing Bay Area backdrops.
- According to Puck, the screenplay adopts a Social Network–style critique of Altman and the commercialization of artificial intelligence.