Sizzling off his acclaimed flip in Apple’s The Studio, which earned him his first Emmy nomination, Ike Barinholtz has entered talks to play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s new AI-themed characteristic Synthetic for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline has discovered.
Barinholtz joins an ensemble that additionally consists of Anora breakout Yura Borisov, Andrew Garfield, and Cooper Koch.
Official plot particulars for the movie are being stored underneath wraps, though it’s described as a comedic drama set on the earth of synthetic intelligence. Whereas unconfirmed, sources say the movie revolves across the interval on the synthetic intelligence firm OpenAI in 2023 that noticed CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.
Simon Wealthy wrote the script and can produce alongside Heyday Movies’ David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford, in addition to Jennifer Fox. The mission was first introduced in early June.
One in every of immediately’s rising comedic multi-hyphenates, Barinholtz performs Sal Saperstein, VP Manufacturing on the fictional Continental Studios, in Apple’s hit present biz comedy The Studio co-created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, amongst others, which lately landed probably the most Emmy nominations of any freshman comedy in historical past with 23. Lately, he additionally co-created Netflix’s hit sports activities comedy Operating Level, starring Kate Hudson, which has been renewed for a second season. He’s repped by UTA, Artists First, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Monica Barbaro stay in talks for a task in Synthetic.
