Hot off his acclaimed turn in Apple’s The Studio, which earned him his first Emmy nomination, Ike Barinholtz has entered talks to play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s new AI-themed feature Artificial for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline has learned.

Barinholtz joins an ensemble that also includes Anora breakout Yura Borisov, Andrew Garfield, and Cooper Koch.

Official plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, although it’s described as a comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence. While unconfirmed, sources say the film revolves around the period at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.

Musk is, of course, the world’s wealthiest man — the billionaire entrepreneur behind companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X (formerly Twitter), who cofounded OpenAI alongside Altman and others in 2015. Musk left the company in 2018, reportedly due to disagreements about the direction OpenAI was going in, among other factors. He’s been vocal about his issues with OpenAI’s shift toward a for-profit structure and its relationship with Microsoft, and warned repeatedly about the potential dangers AI poses to mankind. Nonetheless, he’s pursued his own AI ventures through Tesla, Neuralink, and xAI, a lab he launched two years ago. His AI chatbot Grok was integrated into X in 2023.

Simon Rich wrote the script for Artificial and will produce alongside Heyday Films’ David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford, as well as Jennifer Fox. The project was first announced in early June.

One of today’s rising comedic multi-hyphenates, Barinholtz plays Sal Saperstein, VP Production at the fictional Continental Studios, in Apple’s hit show biz comedy The Studio co-created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, among others, which recently landed the most Emmy nominations of any freshman comedy in history with 23. Recently, he also co-created Netflix’s hit sports comedy Running Point, starring Kate Hudson, which has been renewed for a second season. He is repped by UTA, Artists First, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Monica Barbaro remain in talks for a role in Artificial.