{"id":7783,"date":"2026-07-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/luca-guadagninos-openai-and-sam-altman-movie-artificial-finds-a-new-home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","slug":"luca-guadagninos-openai-and-sam-altman-movie-artificial-finds-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/luca-guadagninos-openai-and-sam-altman-movie-artificial-finds-a-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s OpenAI and Sam Altman movie Artificial finds a new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s OpenAI and Sam Altman movie Artificial has found a new home at Neon. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe film production and distribution company has taken the global rights to the film off Amazon MGM&#8217;s hands. <\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Variety, Neon sealed the deal for the $40 million movie, which is nearly finished. <\/p>\n<p>\nDescribed as a &#8220;comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence&#8221;, Artificial will reportedly be set in 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired and subsequently rehired at the company in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>\nAltman will be portrayed by Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield. <\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as Garfield, Cooper Koch, Chris O&#8217;Dowd, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Hoffman, Ike Barinholtz and Billie Lourd have also been cast in the ensemble film. <\/p>\n<p>\nBorisov takes on the role of Ilya Sutskever &#8211; a co-founder who led the movement to remove Altman from OpenAI &#8211; and A Complete Unknown actress Barbaro is playing chief technology officer Mira Murati.<\/p>\n<p>\nSaturday Night Live&#8217;s Simon Rich has penned the screenplay for the forthcoming film, but Amazon MGM recently insisted the motion picture would be &#8220;better served if it were released by a different studio&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey said in a statement: &#8220;We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker &#8211; not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nArtificial would&#8217;ve marked the third collaboration between Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios after they worked on 2024\u2019s Challengers and thriller After the Hunt, which also stars Garfield.  <\/p>\n<p>\nWhen the project was announced in June 2025, David Heyman said: &#8220;We\u2019ve always wanted to work with Luca. 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According to Variety, Neon sealed the deal for the $40 million movie, which is nearly finished. 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