Overview

• The film follows four tech billionaires at a Utah mountain lodge grappling with the fallout from a new deepfake-enabled AI tool unleashed on Venis’s social platform
• Armstrong conceived the project in December, wrote the script in January, filmed in March and edited through April for a May debut
• Performances by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef have been praised for capturing the characters’ arrogance and nihilism
• Critics have lauded the movie’s timely commentary and gallows humor but some argue it lacks the nuanced emotional depth of Armstrong’s Succession
• Mountainhead premiered May 31 on HBO and Max, coinciding with renewed discussions about regulating AI technologies and social media platforms