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Artificial | The First Teaser for the ChatGPT Film Sold Off by Amazon

Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in a film about OpenAI's five-day leadership crisis that led to his firing and reinstatement, Neon said.

  • Neon released the first teaser for Artificial on Tuesday, a drama starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman scheduled for Christmas Day theatrical release.
  • The film dramatizes the five-day period in November 2023 when Altman was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO, sending the company into chaos before his reinstatement drew Microsoft's involvement and employee threats to leave.
  • Amazon MGM Studios originally developed Artificial but abandoned the project amid its $50 billion OpenAI partnership; after A24 and Focus declined, Neon stepped in to distribute the nearly completed film.
  • The teaser depicts Altman descending into a futuristic bunker while a narrator warns, "We've created a machine that will solve the world's problems," adding, "We opened Pandora's box together."
  • Artificial continues a Hollywood trend of tech-origin dramas, joining The Social Network, BlackBerry, Air, and Ferrari in dramatizing the messy origins of major companies and tech innovations.
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The first teaser of Luca Guadagnino's biographical film Artificial about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been released.

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The film "Artificial" is directed by Luca Guadagnino and seeks to portray the five days in which OpenAI's co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman, was removed and integrated as leader of the Artificial Intelligence company

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The very controversial Artificial offered itself a first frankly anxious trailer, worn by Andrew Garfield in Sam Altman's costume. The film traces the toxic behind the scenes and the missed putsch that shook OpenAI in the fall of 2023. It was the show of summer 2026: in June, Amazon MGM Studios left the production of Artificial. [...]

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