Few will forget the few tumultuous weeks in 2023 when the co-founder and CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, was dismissed and then returned to his post at the artificial company Pionering. It may not be surprising that a turn of such surprising events are now fodder for a major film.
Little is known about the production of Amazon Studios / MGM beyond a handful of news and rumors of casting. What we know is that Andrew Garfield (star of The social network) is interpreted as Sam Altman and Monica Barbaro plays the former OPENAI CEO by interim Mira Murati. Beyond that, we have a handful of stars, including Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman and Billie Lourd, who are not attributed to the roles (none of them seems a good choice for the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella). Tuesday, Chris O’Dowd (Black mirror,, The computer crowd) has joined the list, but without any details on whom the Irish actor would play.
Without a doubt, the film is full of high dramas, absurdity and juicy roles, but perhaps no one will extend everything like the cast of the owner of X and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk.
Musk, who co -founded Openai in 2015 with Altman before leaving in 2018, was a thorn at the Altman team for almost a decade – even during the Altman disorders. Musk has inserted himself, highlighting an unsigned letter full of accusations against Altman.
Things between the two men have not improved. In recent days, Altman and Musk have fought in the Chatgpt position in the Apple Store. Musk maintains that Apple highlights and unjustly promotes his AI partner compared to the X AI offer, the freshly updated grok.
The sparks fly
Musk tweeted this week: “Apple behaves in a way that makes an IA company impossible in addition to Openai to reach No. 1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action.”
To which Altman replied: “This is a remarkable affirmation given what I heard that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own businesses and to harm his competitors and people he does not like.”
Obviously, a representation on the screen of their toxic relationship could be cinematographic gold. But who will play Musk in front of Garfield Altman?
Ike Barinholtz (The studio) According to rumors, but nothing is confirmed. Could O’Dowd be the real “musk” pending?
From our point of view, however, there is no doubt which of the two should play musk. Anyone who has spent time around him knows that Musk has a strange, original and offbeat energy. O’DOWD is a key too discreet but Barinholtz? If you watched part of the nominated at the Emmy Emmy of Apple TV + The studioYou know that Bariholtz, who plays the executive of Studio Sal Sperstein, just has the right mixture of kinetic energy, unpredictability and strange pathos to remove it.
It is at least our hope. A film entitled Artificial About the darkest days in the history of Openai is not worth watching unless it becomes very, very real.
