With DC’s Sgt. Rock not on his schedule, Luca Guadagnino has now lined up a brand-new film mission to direct.
Guadagnino is in talks to direct Synthetic, a recounting of the tumultuous interval at synthetic intelligence firm OpenAI in 2023 that noticed CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.
Heyday Movies’ David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford are producing the function that’s being put collectively at lightning pace at Amazon MGM Studios. Simon Wealthy wrote the script and also will produce, with Jennifer Fox additionally in talks to supply.
How briskly is that this transferring? Sources say Amazon is trying to get manufacturing going this summer season, with an eye fixed to shoot in San Francisco and Italy.
Actors are being lined up, though no offers are made and far is contingent on Guadagnino’s deal being closed. Andrew Garfield, A Full Unknown scene-stealer Monica Barbaro, and Anora actor Yura Borisov are amongst these mentioned to be circling.
Altman co-founded OpenAI, however within the fall of 2023, after mounting security issues concerning AI, and reviews of abusive habits, was ousted as the top of the corporate by his board. 5 days later, after a revolt, he was reinstated. Sources say that if all goes as deliberate, Garfield would play Altman, Barbaro would play chief expertise workplace Mira Murati, and Borisov would play Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder who led the motion to eliminate Altman.
Synthetic will unite Guadagnino and Amazon MGM for the third time. He directed After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri, which the studio is releasing in theaters Oct. 10. He additionally directed Challengers, starring Zendaya, which the studio launched theatrically final yr.
Luca had been beforehand on observe to shoot Rock, a World Conflict Two motion film that may have starred Colin Farrell, for DC. That mission had been eying a late summer season begin of manufacturing earlier than DC reconsidered its plans, citing “daylight points.” Now, satirically, Guadagnino’s new mission will doubtless start earlier than Rock’s authentic begin.