How do you comply with a cultural phenomenon like “Succession”? For those who’re Jesse Armstrong, it doesn’t harm to construct on what you do greatest: making enjoyable of infantile billionaires on HBO.
Armstrong returns to the premium cable community in Might with “Mountainhead,” an HBO authentic film he wrote and directed with a premise that may very well be ripped proper out of “Succession.” The movie follows 4 tech moguls (performed by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Yousef, and Cory Michael Smith) with a mixed web value of almost $400 billion who meet in an alpine mansion for a weekend of snowboarding and poker. However their bros’ getaway is quickly derailed once they discover themselves combating over a world meltdown that will or will not be brought on — or on the very least, amplified and expedited — by their very own social media platforms.
Further solid members for “Mountainhead” embody Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, Daniel Oreskes, David Thompson, Amie MacKenzie, and Ava Kostia. The movie is government produced by Armstrong, Frank Wealthy, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod, and Jill Footlick.
Whereas “Mountainhead” will inevitably see Armstrong overlaying some new inventive terrain, maybe the movie’s continued concentrate on dysfunction amongst America’s wealthiest households will assist ease the ache of “Succession” ending. Armstrong beforehand stated that he hoped somebody would have talked him out of ending the acclaimed collection after 4 seasons as a result of he loved making it a lot.
“The phrase that involves thoughts for me is ‘pure.’ I hope individuals, once they see this season, will really feel that it has a pure form to it,” Armstrong stated in a 2023 interview with Selection previous to Season 4. “That’s how I pitched it to my writers’ room, type of hoping I’d get argued out of it so we’d see a method to do extra seasons, as a result of I like working with these individuals. I believe there’s a sense of completeness and rightness to the form of the present.”
“Mountainhead” airs on HBO on Saturday, Might 31 at 8 p.m. E.T./P.T. and shall be out there to stream on Max. Try the teaser beneath.