{"id":285639,"date":"2025-07-23T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:31:09","slug":"ike-barinholtz-circling-elon-musk-role-in-artificial-movie-from-amazon-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285639\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Barinholtz Circling Elon Musk Role In &#8216;Artificial&#8217; Movie From Amazon MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHot off his acclaimed turn in Apple\u2019s The Studio, which earned him his first Emmy nomination, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ike-barinholtz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ike-barinholtz\" data-tag=\"ike-barinholtz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ike Barinholtz<\/a> has entered talks to play <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s new AI-themed feature <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/artificial\/\" id=\"auto-tag_artificial\" data-tag=\"artificial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amazon-mgm-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm-studios\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>, Deadline has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBarinholtz joins an ensemble that also includes Anora breakout Yura Borisov, Andrew Garfield, and Cooper Koch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOfficial plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, although it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMusk is, of course, the world\u2019s wealthiest man \u2014 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\u2019s been vocal about his issues with OpenAI\u2019s shift toward a for-profit structure and its relationship with Microsoft, and warned repeatedly about the potential dangers AI poses to mankind. Nonetheless, he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSimon Rich wrote the script for Artificial and will produce alongside Heyday Films\u2019 David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford, as well as Jennifer Fox. The project was first announced in early June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne of today\u2019s rising comedic multi-hyphenates, Barinholtz plays Sal Saperstein, VP Production at the fictional Continental Studios, in Apple\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMonica Barbaro remain in talks for a role in Artificial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot off his acclaimed turn in Apple\u2019s The Studio, which earned him his first Emmy nomination, Ike Barinholtz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1479,49547,1942,295,106851,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","10":"tag-artificial","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ike-barinholtz","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}