Andrew Garfield previously played Eduardo Severin, the founder of Facebook in the film The Social Network. Now he will play Sam Altman in the film Artificial produced by Amazon MGM studio. The film will follow Altman's ouster as CEO of OpenAI in 2023 before successfully wresting him back from the board of directors.
In addition to Garfield, Monica Barbaro (Top Gun Maverick) will reportedly play CTO Mira Murati, and Yura Borisov (Anora) will play OpenAI's head of research Ilya Sutskever. The two individuals involved in removing Altman from OpenAI have since left the company and founded two artificial intelligence companies of their own. The film will be directed by Luca Guadagnino, who previously produced Challengers, Suspiria and Call Me by Your Name.
Movies about internal conflicts that occur in technology companies have become popular again in Hollywood over the past decade. So far, films and TV series about Blackberry, Uber, Theranos and WeWork have been released to mixed reviews from audiences.