Overview
- On Tuesday Garfield told Esquire he has never met Sam Altman and that his portrayal in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial was built from the script, court transcripts, interviews and other research.
- The film dramatizes the five-day November 2023 OpenAI leadership crisis when Altman was briefly fired and then reinstated as chief executive.
- Amazon MGM, which developed and financed the roughly $40 million project, dropped distribution in June after announcing a major investment and partnership with OpenAI and said the movie would be better served by another studio.
- Neon acquired worldwide theatrical rights in June and has signaled a release intended to qualify the film for this year’s Oscars, though no official public release date has been set.
- Garfield described using Jungian ideas about the ‘shadow self’ to find parts of the character, said he felt relieved when filming ended, and the project’s studio shift has raised fresh questions about how commercial ties between studios and tech firms can shape which films reach theaters.