Neon will release Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” on Christmas Day. The film stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI founder Sam Altman and dramatizes the events surrounding his brief firing and reinstatement in 2023.
The movie centers on the pressures of the AI arms race. Ike Barinholtz will portray Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI. Monica Barbaro plays former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, 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. The project faced distribution challenges after Amazon MGM Studios decided to drop it, stating it “would be better served if it were released by a different studio,” following a major partnership with OpenAI and a $50 billion investment in the company. After being passed on by Netflix, A24 and Focus, Neon acquired distribution rights in June 2026.
The film is directed by Guadagnino and written by Simon Rich. The two co-produced alongside David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford and Jennifer Fox. The timely subject matter and the controversy surrounding its initial distribution could position “Artificial” for Oscar consideration.
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