OpenAI movie 'Artificial' has a new home after Amazon dropped it

Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI movie Artificial may have been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, but it has a new home.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Neon has picked up the film, which stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It's set in the company's turbulent 2023, when Altman was fired from OpenAI and rehired days later.

Amazon pulled out of the film's production in June, with the decision reportedly made by Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios chief Mike Hopkins after $40 million had already been spent on it. Months earlier in February, Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI, with the partnership to see Amazon Web Services as core infrastructure for OpenAI.

According to THR, Neon picked up Artificial after studios including A24, Focus Features, and Netflix passed.

Mashable has reached out to Neon and Amazon for comment.

Written by Simon Rich, Artificial not only stars Garfield as Altman, but also The Studio's Ike Barinholtz as rival Elon Musk, A Complete Unknown star Monica Barbaro as OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati, and Anora's Yura Borisov plays OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

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