Ellise Shafer and Alex Ritman, writing for Variety (based on a Puck.news scoop):

Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished Sam Altman movie, “Artificial,” has been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has confirmed.

The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios. The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February to expand OpenAI’s use of Amazon Web Services and develop custom AI models, which included a $50 billion investment on Amazon’s part.

The film’s focus is Altman’s rapid firing and rehiring in 2023. Reportedly, “the characters of Altman and Musk are the least sympathetic and the ones audiences would ‘like the least.’” Just like in real life.

What are the chances that Bezos killed the movie as a favor to Altman?

It’s known that Altman and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have a relationship and Altman even attended Bezos’ wedding in Italy last year.

Right.

Which other billionaire movie studio head will eagerly chase a movie that makes their buddy Altman (and Musk) look bad (or impact their AI negotiations)? I suspect this flick will be quietly shelved.