Indie distributor Neon has acquired "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's starry drama about Sam Altman and OpenAI, after Amazon MGM Studios abruptly dropped the nearly finished film earlier this month.
The decision is widely being read as fallout from Amazon's new $50 billion (€46bn) partnership with the AI company.
Artificial stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, with Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk.
Written by SNL alumnus Simon Rich, the film has been billed as "The Social Network" for the AI era — a nod to David Fincher's 2010 drama about the founding of Facebook and the bitter fallout among its co-founders.
Artificial will recount the frantic 2023 weekend when Altman was fired by OpenAI's board and reinstated within days.
