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Artificial trailer: Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s AI drama
Updated On: 09 September, 2026 03:01 PM IST | Washington DC | ANI
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, explores the 2023 leadership crisis that briefly saw him fired and reinstated. The film, featuring Elon Musk and other AI figures, arrives in theatres on Christmas Day

Andrew Garfield. Pics/AFP, X
The makers have released the trailer of Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' starring Andrew Garfield in the lead role. The actor stars as OpenAI founder Sam Altman and centres on the scandal that erupted when he was suddenly fired in 2023 and then reinstated only five days later.
Garfield stars as Altman amidst the pressure of the AI arms race, with Ike Barinholtz as co-founder Elon Musk. Monica Barbaro plays former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Anora breakout Yura Borisov is former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Mark Rylance plays Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton. Jason Schwartzman, Zosia Mamet, Cooper Hoffman, Chris O'Dowd, Cooper Koch and Billie Lourd also appear in the film.


