{"id":610967,"date":"2026-07-30T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:06:11","slug":"andrew-garfield-on-amazon-dropping-artificial-wanting-to-meet-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610967\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield on Amazon Dropping Artificial, Wanting to Meet Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cArtificial<\/a>\u201d star Andrew Garfield<\/a> is weighing on Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 decision to drop the Luca Guadagnino-directed film about Sam Altman<\/a> and OpenAI.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was and I wasn\u2019t [surprised],\u201d the Oscar winner told me Wednesday while promoting his new movie \u201cThe Magic Faraway Tree.\u201d \u201cI think there are certain things that fit certain places and don\u2019t fit other places and they [Amazon] were nothing but supportive and nothing but encouraging while we were making the film. Luca has a really great relationship with them and I\u2019ve developed a lovely relationship with them as well. I\u2019m grateful that they\u2019ve helped the film to find the home that it was meant to find.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Simon Rich-scripted film chronicles OpenAI\u2019s firing and rehiring of Altman, played by Garfield, in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon acquired the nearly completed $40 million film after Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> announced that it believed it would \u201cbe better served if it were released by a different studio.\u201d Amazon\u2019s decision came just months after the company signed a major partnership with OpenAI, including a $50 billion investment, and less than a year after Altman attended Amazon boss Jeff Bezos\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast also includes Monica Barbaro,\u00a0Yura Borisov,\u00a0Mark Rylance,\u00a0Ike Barinholtz,\u00a0Jason Schwartzman,\u00a0Zosia Mamet,\u00a0Cooper Hoffman<\/a>,\u00a0Chris O\u2019Dowd,\u00a0Cooper Koch and\u00a0Billie Lourd.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon has committed to launching an awards campaign for \u201cArtificial\u201d to enter this year\u2019s Oscar race.<\/p>\n

\n\tGarfield said he didn\u2019t reach out to Altman as part of his research and preparation for the role.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wouldn\u2019t know how to. I don\u2019t I don\u2019t have his number. I don\u2019t have his email,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cBut I\u2019m sure that he\u2019d be able to reach me if he wants to. I\u2019d be very excited and curious to talk with him if he would ever want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNot that there wasn\u2019t enough public material to draw from. \u201cHe\u2019s very very documented,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cThere are lots of interviews. There\u2019s lots of visuals and audio and reporting. I, of course, would have loved and still would love to meet Sam. But I\u2019m 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\u2019re never going to understand anyone ever fully ever anyway. We\u2019re all so complicated and deeply layered, and I think that Mr. Altman is probably no exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI also caught up with Hoffman, whose role in \u201cArtificial\u201d has not been revealed, on Tuesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of his new raunchy Gregg Araki movie \u201cI Want Your Sex.\u201d The actor said he wasn\u2019t surprised Amazon pulled out of \u201cArtificial.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Artificial” star Cooper Hoffman on Amazon dropping the Sam Altman Open AI movie:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m shocked they picked it up in the first place. I was like this feels like you are all in like, I don\u2019t know\u2026I don\u2019t know who\u2019s running everything. When they dropped it, it was kinda like,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/TqgY6OW5H7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Variety (@Variety) July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m shocked they picked it up in the first place,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cI was like this feels like you are all in like, I don\u2019t know \u2026 I don\u2019t know who\u2019s running everything. When they dropped it, it was kinda like, \u2018Oh, yeah, that kinda actually makes sense,\u2019 but then it got picked up by Neon, which I\u2019m so happy about. I love Neon and I couldn\u2019t be more happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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