Is Elon Musk ready for his closeup?
Page Six Hollywood recently reported that there’s a distinct chill in Hollywood when it comes to movies about tech moguls — but Musk could still (unwittingly) figure into this year’s Oscar race.
An upcoming documentary on the Tesla mogul — who lost his trillionaire status yesterday, and was worth a mere $957B when shares of SpaceX crashed — by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has received an October 16 release date, now putting the film in the thick of awards season.
The doc is also expected to debut at a major fall film festival, like Venice, Telluride and Toronto, making it a high profile affair.
The upcoming Musk doc already stoked a social media skirmish between the tech mogul and the filmmaker as soon as it was announced.
Musk previously called the upcoming documentary on him a “hit piece” on then-Twitter back in 2023, to which Gibney replied, “How would you know?”
Musk has so far stayed mum on the film getting a release date. Stay tuned.
Distributor Bleecker Street acquired the theatrical rights last summer, and the doc will be released with HBO Documentary Films and Universal Pictures Content Group, according to an announcement.
The film was described when it went into production as the “definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.” Gibney is known for making films on controversial subjects and characters, including Eliot Spitzer, Lance Armstrong, Enron, Elizabeth Holmes, WikiLeaks, Scientology, Benjamin Netanyahu, Steve Jobs, Hunter S. Thompson, Tiger Woods, the opioid crisis and more.
There is also a Musk feature in development at A24 with Darren Aronofsky attached to direct, but as we previously reported, but there has been little movement since it was announced three years ago.
The Musk doc news comes at the same time Amazon MGM dropped its feature on Sam Altman and OpenAI, “Artificial, which became a celluloid hot potato and was bought by indie outfit Neon after Netflix, Focus and A24 all passed.
We previously reported that the sale by CAA was cloaked in a level of secrecy that execs said they had not previously seen before.
“Artificial,” in which Ike Barinholtz plays Musk, has no release date yet.
But it seems some awards season drama could be brewing anyway…
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