Luca Guadagnino’s highly anticipated Sam Altman biopic artificial It premiered at the New York Film Festival on Monday night and early reactions to the film have already poured in on social media.
Billed as a biographical drama, the film tells the story of a chaotic boardroom crisis at OpenAI in November 2023, when co-founder Altman is fired and then re-hired at the AI giant.
Andrew Garfield plays Altman, while Enora’s Yura Borisov plays Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman. Monica Barbero plays Mira Muratti, the chief technology officer of OpenAI, and Cooper Hoffman plays Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s board chairman. Ike Barinholtz plays Elon Musk, the second co-founder of OpenAI.
The cast also includes Jason Schwartzman, Chris O’Dowd, Mark Rylance, Zosia Mamet, Billie Lourd, Angus Imrie, Nicholas Hamilton and Thaddea Graham.
artificial Was written by humorist and Saturday night Live Alumnus Simon Rich. The film was developed at Amazon’s MGM studios before Guadagnino was hired to direct. Amazon MGM infamously removed the film several days after parent company Amazon signed a deal with OpenAI.
neon raised artificial In a unique deal, they paid nothing upfront but committed to a $15 million marketing spend.
artificial Will be released in theaters on 25th December. Read below for the initial social media reaction to the film.