Luca Guadagnino‘s almost completed Sam Altman film, “Artificial,” has been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, Selection has confirmed.
The movie, starring Andrew Garfield because the controversial OpenAI CEO, might be shopped to different studios. The transfer notably comes after Amazon struck an enormous partnership with the tech firm in February to increase OpenAI’s use of Amazon Internet Companies and develop customized AI fashions, which included a $50 billion funding on Amazon’s half.
“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” a spokesperson for Amazon stated. “We believe that ‘Artificial’ will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”
A consultant for Guadagnino didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.
Apart from Garfield, “Artificial” has a massively starry solid together with Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, Angus Imrie, Chris O’Dowd and Mark Rylance additionally function. The movie was written by “SNL” alum Simon Wealthy and focuses on the temporary interval Altman was fired from his place at OpenAI in 2023 after which rehired.
Selection understands that, previous to being dropped by Amazon, “Artificial” already had a number of check screenings, which went down very positively, and screened for different studios on Thursday. In line with an insider who has seen the film, the characters of Altman and Musk are the least sympathetic and those audiences would “like the least.” It’s additionally understood that Amazon had seen all of the early iterations of the script, earlier than Guadagnino boarded the venture.
Puck was the primary to report the information of Amazon dropping the movie.
