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Amazon MGM Studios has reportedly dropped Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” with the film now looking for a new home reports Puck News.
The project aims to be for AI what “The Social Network” was for social media as it follows the meteoric rise of OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – along with the personal rivalries, ego clashes, and ethical tensions behind the scenes.
It stars Andrew Garfield as current CEO Sam Altman, Yura Borisov as machine learning engineer Ilya Sutskever, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk along with Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Rylance. Simon Rich (“An American Pickle,” FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman”) penned the screenplay.
A few weeks ago, Amazon opted to delay the film until next year, and now they’ve dropped it altogether – despite the movie having been shot last Summer and is reportedly said to be essentially finished and ready for release.
That has raised obvious questions. The new report claims the tone of the film “became significantly darker” than the version both originally scripted by Rich and pitched by Guadagnino.
Upon seeing a completed cut, Amazon-MGM chief Mike Hopkins is said to have pulled the project from its planned release. In a statement to the outlet, the company says it believes the film “will be better served” at another studio and is working with the filmmakers to find a new home for it.
Guadagnino’s most recent film was “After the Hunt,” which was produced by Amazon MGM Studios and was widely panned upon release. Before that were the acclaimed hit “Challengers” and the well-regarded but little-seen “Queer”.
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