Billie Lourd joins the cast of Andrew Garfield's Artificial based on OpenAI

Andrew Garfield and Billie Lourd. Pics/AFP

Scream Queens TV series actress Billie Lourd is set to join the ensemble cast of the upcoming movie Artificial, which also stars Andrew Garfield in the lead role, reported Deadline. The movie is directed by Luca Guadagnino and is produced under the banner of Amazon and MGM Studios. The movie's cast also includes Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz in prominent roles, as per Deadline.

Film to revolve around OpenAI

According to the outlet, the official plot details of the movie are being kept under wraps. However, the film is being described as a comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence. While unconfirmed, Deadline reports state that the film revolves around the period at OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.

The details around Billie Lopurd's character in the film are still not revealed by the makers. Simon Rich wrote the script and will produce alongside Heyday Films' David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford, as well as Jennifer Fox.

About Billie Lourd

As for Lourd, the actress was recently seen in Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl and voiced a role in the animated Smurfs movie, which also had singer Rihanna as a voice artist. On TV, Lourd starred in the 11th season of Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story: NYC, as well as in American Horror Story's Double Feature, Apocalypse and Cult.

According to Deadline, Lourd's upcoming projects include 'Adulthood', directed by Alex Winter; 'The Pirate King'; 'Love Language'; and crime thriller 'The Deputy'. Lourd also starred in two seasons of Ryan Murphy's Fox series Scream Queens.

Lourd made her feature film debut in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens and reprised her role as Lieutenant Connix in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Will Andrew play Sam Altman?

It is rumoured that the actor will be essaying the role inspired by former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. However, there is no confirmation on the same.

Apart from Artificial, Andrew also has After the Hunt and Enid Blyton adaptation and family franchise hopeful The Magic Faraway Tree alongside Claire Foy, Jessica Gunning and Nicola Coughlan for Studiocanal, and was recently cast in Paul Greengrass' Focus Features thriller The Rage about the Peasants' Revolt in 14th century England.

(with inputs from ANI)