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Andrew Garfield 'Was And Wasn't Surprised' Sam Altman Film Got Dropped By Amazon
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Earlier this year, Amazon pulled Luca Guadagnino’s biopic about OpenAI boss Sam Altman.
The film, Artificial, “will be better served if it were released by a different studio and [we] are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home,” Amazon MGM Studios said after deciding to ditch its release.
The Guardian noted that the cancellation came “in the wake of a significant partnership struck between Amazon and OpenAI”.
Artificial stars Andrew Garfield as Altman and comedian and actor Ike Barinholtz as co-founder of OpenAI, Elon Musk.
Speaking with Variety on Wednesday while promoting his new film, The Magic Faraway Tree, Garfield said he “was and I wasn’t [surprised]” to hear the movie had been dropped.
“I think there are certain things that fit certain places and don’t fit other places and [Amazon] were nothing but supportive and nothing but encouraging while we were making the film,” he added.
“Luca [Guadagnino, Artificial’s director] has a really great relationship with them and I’ve developed a lovely relationship with them as well. I’m grateful that they’ve helped the film to find the home that it was meant to find.”
Neon, who acquired the global rights to Artificial from Amazon MGM Studios, seem to have the movie on their slate for the upcoming awards season.
Garfield added that he didn’t contact his character, Altman, while filming the movie that focused on his turbulent 2023 firing and rehiring at OpenAI.
“I wouldn’t know how to. I don’t have his number. I don’t have his email. But I’m sure that he’d be able to reach me if he wants to. I’d be very excited and curious to talk with him if he would ever want to do that.”
Andrew added that Altman is “very documented,” having sat for lots of interviews.
“I, of course, would have loved and still would love to meet Sam. But I’m playing a version of the character that was written in the script, and I think that while you want to be as truthful to that as you can, you’re never going to understand anyone ever fully ever anyway.
“We’re all so complicated and deeply layered, and I think that Mr. Altman is probably no exception.”
You can read the entire Variety article here.
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