Ike Barinholtz has been forged as Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming OpenAI film, Synthetic, stories Matthew Belloni of Puck Information.
Barinholtz, principally lately identified for his function as Sal Saperstein in The Studio, joins Anora breakout Yura Borisov, Andrew Garfield, and Monica Barbaro in the Amazon MGM Studios movie, which was penned by Simon Wealthy.
Musk was an early investor in OpenAI earlier than launching his rival firm, xAI. As Belloni beforehand reported, he’s a minor character within the film, who principally serves as “comedian reduction” in a couple of scenes the place he’s “extra involved along with his (malfunctioning) driverless Tesla than the prospect of uncontrolled AI destroying the world.”
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Drawing comparisons to The Social Community, Synthetic is about within the tumultuous five-day interval in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired, then rehired because the CEO of the corporate behind ChatGPT. In accordance with Belloni, the movie’s story revolves round OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever (Borisov) and his betrayal by the hands of Altman and Silicon Valley.
“The script is just about in keeping with what you would possibly anticipate Hollywood to do with the OpenAI origin story: a simple indictment of the reckless tradition behind the commercialization of synthetic intelligence, in addition to a drive-by hit on Altman, who’s depicted as a liar and a grasp schemer,” Belloni wrote in a report printed earlier this month.
Different key figures within the movie embody OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati (performed by Barbaro) in addition to Dario Amodei, the corporate’s former VP of analysis who left to turn out to be CEO of rival Anthropic, present OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Microsoft CEO and key OpenAI backer Satya Nadella, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and former OpenAI board members Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner.
Synthetic is deliberate for a 2026 launch.
The function of “Elon Musk” has been forged within the massive OpenAI-Sam Altman film starring Andrew Garfield from Amazon Studios. Elon will probably be performed by….await it…Ike Barinholtz (Sal Saperstein from The Studio).
— Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) July 23, 2025