Sam Altman Talks Elon Musk, ‘Artificial,’ and the Future of Humanity
Hollywood’s tech portraits are turning darker as 2026 films and documentaries revisit scandals and AI fears, with Amazon dropping Artificial before Neon picked it up.
- On Monday, the New York Film Festival premieres "Artificial," a biopic featuring OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever, after Neon acquired the film from Amazon MGM Studios.
- Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project in June, stating it "will be better served if it were released by a different studio" following its $50 billion investment in OpenAI.
- Andrew Garfield portrays Altman in the biopic, which director Luca Guadagnino shot on 35mm; Altman disputed the trailer's bunker scene accuracy, though he admitted he "did look kind of cool."
- This biopic joins a 2026 wave of films analyzing tech elites, including Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning" and Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary "Musk."
- WIRED editor-in-chief Katie Drummond notes the genre reflects "well-founded resentment from so many Americans" regarding elites who "foist technology" on the public.
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Sam Altman Says ‘Artificial’ Filmed Outside His House and He Waved at Andrew Garfield: ‘He Did Walk Like Me … I Felt I Was in Some Weird Glitch of the Simulation’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has never met Andrew Garfield — who is portraying him in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film “Artificial” — but he did wave at him once. In a new cover story with Vanity Fair, the controversial tech exec addressed the movie for the first time, which depicts the five-day period in 2023 when he was ousted from OpenAI and then rehired. Altman has seen the trailer and said of Garfield: “He did walk like me.” He then claimed that s…
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MSNBCTV NEWS‘Artificial’ Took on a Big Tech Giant. Hollywood Wasn’t Ready
Luca Guadagnino and star Andrew Garfield speak frankly about what went into their daring film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, and what led to Neon rescuing it after Amazon decided not to release it: “The fight is on to make sure that we are allowed to make things freely.”
Sam Altman Talks Elon Musk, ‘Artificial,’ and the Future of Humanity
The OpenAI CEO discusses ChatGPT and suicide prevention, having more kids, being portrayed by Andrew Garfield, what he really thinks of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and being seen as the Oppenheimer of the Artificial Age.
Hollywood turns on big tech — at least on screen
By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Sam Altman thinks the upcoming movie about him looks terrible. “I did see the movie trailer,” the OpenAI founder recently told CNBC of “Artificial,” which comes out this Christmas. “I mean, it looks like an awful movie, but I appreciate people’s creativity, and I really do support that.” The
Sam Altman about the film "The Artificial," byopic about OpenAI, Andrew Garfield, trailer, Altman's view of the accuracy of events
Sam Altman told that he met Andrew Garfield during the shooting of “Artificial”, Luca Guadagnino’s film about the leadership crisis that shook OpenAI in 2023. The CEO said that the actor had captured his way of walking, although he also warned that he did not expect an accurate representation of the facts.
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