Jesse Armstrong has no Plan to create another project about billionaires.
this succession The creator took a break after completing a series of articles from HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series about ridiculously wealthy siblings fighting for a media conglomerate that ended in May 2023. Infinite: The rise and fall of the new tycoon, About crypto fraudster Sam Bankman Fried, Armstrong is attracted to podcasts featuring tech elites. It inspired him to write and guide him first feature: Mountainheada movie about three tech billionaires and their less abundant, deeply insecure friends, all have too much power.
“I can’t get… the voice of technology, the voice of technicians, billionaires, billionaires, billionaires, billionaires, billionaires, billionaires,” Armstrong said. For him, this voice reflects both the “highest confidence in their analytical abilities” and “arrogance.” Armstrong is very good here. For nearly two hours of watching the movie, I looked at the four-person trade terms, insults and delusions, and it seemed to me that the sentence repeatedly came to my mind douchebag.
The film will be aired on HBO starting May 31 with Steve Carell as venture capitalist Randall; Jason Schwartzman as Hugo Van Yalk, whose nickname “souper” is a reference to the soup kitchen and his lower net worth. Cory Michael Smith plays Zuck-Elon, his platform Traam releases a surreal deep strike; Ramy Youssef plays Jeff, who plans to profit from the release of AI in response to the chaos his friend Pal Venis has launched in the world.
Friends meet and retreat in the mountainous area hosted by Souper, and his home decor and food platters impress. They have the rule of “no deals, no meals, no heels”. But in their case, the fun of snowmobile was eventually taken over by the land and “eliminated the United States.”
Mountainhead In the context of Donald Trump’s second term, most of which were led by Elon Musk’s cathedral mission. The shooting happened within a few weeks this spring. Carell said the tight turnaround situation (“everyone believes in their gut”) said Schwartzman said it was a challenge for him to gain fluency quickly in Armstrong’s “technical voice.”
“At some point, I said to Jesse, if you want us to say anything extra, do you have a vocabulary or a dictionary,” Schwartzman said. “It’s like you’re making a movie in French and then improvising in Italian.”
Although Armstrong admits that some might ask “Why should I care about these rich assholes” to deal with his latest project, he avoids making judgments about them.
“I do feel a little sympathetic about the real people’s struggles with certain technologies because it’s a bit like a hall of mirrors,” Armstrong said. “A lot of people perceive AI with the power of this technology, and as far as I know, I think a real sense of responsibility.”
