Neon, the indie studio behind Anora and Longlegs, has picked up Luca Guadagnino’s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI.

That didn’t take long. Less than two weeks after Amazon declined to release Luca Guadagnino’s drama, Artificial, it’s found a home at Neon. It was previously reported that another indie film company, Mubi, was also in the mix at one point, while Netflix, A24 and Warner Bros Clockwork had turned it down.

It’s now thought that Guadagnino’s film, about OpenAI founder Sam Altman, will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival; Variety also reports that Neon is planning some sort of Oscar campaign.

Andrew Garfield is in the lead as Altman, with the drama covering a period in late 2023 when the founder was abruptly fired by his board of directors. Following a mutinous response from both employees and investors, Altman was hired again days later. ChatGPT’s march to AI dominance carried on apace, allowing kids everywhere to cheat on their homework.

Amazon MGM had originally bankrolled Artificial to the tune of around $40m. It was during post-production that someone at the company decided that the film might be “better served” if it were released elsewhere.

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By-the-by, Amazon and OpenAI have some close business links with major sums of money attached, such as a $50bn investment that Amazon made in OpenAI over the past few months.

There had been some earlier reports that Artificial hadn’t tested well in early screenings; Variety says the opposite, and that people who’ve had an early look at the film liked it.

The millionaires and billionaires the film depicts may be less enamoured with it. Written by Simon Rich, the script is said to depict Altman in a less than flattering light, while Elon Musk, played by Ike Barinholtz is also “highly dislikeable” per Variety.

Supporting players include Monica Barbaro, Jason Schwartzman, Zosia Mamet, Cooper Hoffman, Chris O’Dowd and Billie Lourd. That’s a pretty cool cast.

By the sounds of things, Artificial will be getting its first screenings within a matter of weeks; the Venice Film Festival takes place from the 2nd to the 12th September. We’ve no idea whether it’ll end up becoming as acclaimed as The Social Network, another film about a weird, capricious tech bro that featured Andrew Garfield. But it’d be highly amusing if it won Best Picture next year, wouldn’t it?

More on this as it comes in.