Overview

• Ike Barinholtz is negotiating to portray Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Artificial at Amazon MGM.
• Andrew Garfield is attached to play Sam Altman, with Yura Borisov set for OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Cooper Koch completing the principal cast.
• The comedic drama centers on the 2023 OpenAI boardroom crisis during which Altman was briefly ousted and reinstated.
• Simon Rich penned the script, joining producers David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford and Jennifer Fox under the Heyday Films and Amazon MGM banners.
• The production has entered pre-production on a fast-tracked summer shoot planned in San Francisco and Italy.