‘Artificial’ Teaser Trailer Shows Andrew Garfield As Sam Altman In Luca Guadagnino Film
Neon on Monday released the teaser trailer for Artificial, the Luca Guadagnino-directed movie that centers on Sam Altman and a key, tumultuous time at his company, Chat GTP creator OpenAI. The footage reveals Andrew Garfield as Altman, who is seen walking through some sort of mansion/office. “We have created a machine that will solve the […]
Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming docudrama, “Artificial,” has unveiled a trailer featuring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Scheduled to premiere at the 2026 New York Film Festival on October 5, the film will be released in limited theaters on Christmas Day before a wider release in January 2027. Originally dropped by Amazon, the film was subsequently acquired by Neon for distribution.
The trailer, which is the first publicly released footage, depicts Garfield’s Altman navigating a luxurious OpenAI compound that leads to a vault containing firearms and dangerous weaponry. Altman’s character muses, "We opened Pandora's box together. The future is inevitable," as he goes about his unusual workday. The film, penned by Simon Rich, will not be a conventional biopic but rather a dramatization of the period during which Altman was fired and later rehired by OpenAI.
The trailer concludes with an unsettling confrontation between Garfield’s Altman and OpenAI's Chief Science Officer Ilya Sutskever, who reportedly played a significant role in Altman's ousting. "Artificial" also stars Monica Barbaro, Ike Barinholtz, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Chris O’Dowd, Mark Rylance, Zosia Mamet, Billie Lourd, and others.
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