Overview
- The Luca Guadagnino film dramatizes the five-day episode in 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired and then rehired and centers on the company’s rise and governance struggles.
- The film premiered at the New York Film Festival and played at the BFI London Film Festival this week, earning broadly positive reviews and prompting early awards campaigning.
- Andrew Garfield leads a high-profile ensemble that includes Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Ike Barinholtz and Mark Rylance, with critics singling out Garfield and Borisov for Oscar discussion.
- Writer Simon Rich has framed the movie as a warning about advanced AI, saying the script is carefully fact-checked and portraying near-sentient AGI as a core ethical and safety concern.
- The production’s release path has rekindled debate over tech influence in entertainment after Amazon MGM dropped the near-complete film following Amazon’s major partnership with OpenAI and Neon later acquired distribution.