{"id":1049584,"date":"2026-09-07T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1049584\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:26:19","slug":"watch-the-teaser-trailer-for-musk-alex-gibney-documentary-on-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1049584\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Teaser-Trailer For ‘Musk,’ Alex Gibney Documentary on Elon."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBleecker Street<\/a> has released a teaser-trailer for Alex Gibney<\/a>\u2019s highly anticipated documentary Musk<\/a>, and it\u2019s not a flattering portrait of the SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink honcho and X owner.<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, the teaser begins with voices of some people heaping praise on Elon Musk<\/a> \u2013 one idolator roaring he\u2019s \u201cthe greatest capitalist in history!\u201d But those encomiums are quickly followed by harsher appraisals from Musk observers: \u201cHe\u2019s chaotic, random, capricious,\u201d says one. Another offers, \u201cHe is manifestly cruel and selfish.\u201d Yet another observes, \u201cIn a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the teaser-trailer above.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Musk'\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Musk\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Bleecker Street<\/p>\n

\n\tGibney\u2019s film, which premieres Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival, clocks in at just under 4 hours. He and Musk have already tangled on the X\/Twitter platform, with the mega-billionaire branding him a \u201cdouche.\u201d (To which Gibney amusingly retorted, \u201cDouch\u00e9.\u201d). Leaving epithets aside, what can be said about Gibney is that he is one of documentary\u2019s most respected figures, and the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Zero Days and many other documentaries.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Telluride Film Festival 2026: Read All Of Deadline\u2019s Reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s perhaps worth noting that Gibney enjoys the backing of a multi-billionaire too \u2013 Wendy Schmidt<\/a>, who bought a controlling interest in Gibney\u2019s production company, Jigsaw Productions in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Venice, Musk heads to the Toronto Film Festival. Bleecker Street plans to release it theatrically on October 16, with HBO debuting the film on premium cable and the HBO Max streaming platform after that. The documentary is expected to make a strong bid for Academy Award recognition.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Venice Film Festival 2026: Read All Of Deadline\u2019s Reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2024, Gibney appeared on Deadline\u2019s Doc Talk podcast<\/a> and gave us something of a preview of the film.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDirector Alex Gibney<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of DOC NYC<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe is a larger-than-life figure,\u201d he said of Musk. \u201cPeople have their opinions about him, but I think the challenge\u2026 is to bring something that people don\u2019t expect to find, something in the material that\u2019s hiding, some stuff that\u2019s hiding in plain sight, which is what I\u2019d say we are finding that I think will be surprising for folks. And it\u2019s not just like, is it Elon thumbs up or Elon thumbs down? I\u2019m not really interested in that kind of formula, douche or not. But it\u2019s more like, what do we really think about how he operates? And I\u2019m pretty confident that what we\u2019re coming up with will be illuminating and also kind of formally innovative. We\u2019re really going to have fun with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the teaser-trailer for Musk above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bleecker Street has released a teaser-trailer for Alex Gibney\u2019s highly anticipated documentary Musk, and it\u2019s not a flattering…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1049585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[383918,233610,66,171,53,2539,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1049584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alex-gibney","tag-bleecker-street","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-musk","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117231877627347099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}