Director Alex Gibney on Terrifying Musk Documentary: 'It's Not a Funeral; It's a Warning'
The nearly four-hour film examines Musk’s businesses and personal life as HBO weighs its streaming release.
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NEW YORK. A new documentary portrays Elon Musk as an AI-generated villain bent on world domination. Musk himself is not amused. But much that is happening in the world right now reinforces the film's thesis about the billionaire's enormous power.
Director Alex Gibney on terrifying Musk documentary: 'It's not a funeral; it's a warning'
Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour, fire-and-brimstone documentary Musk — on tech oligarch, worlds-richest-man Elon Musk — is not uplifting. Instead, it is one of the most depressing and terrifying pieces of public media since An Inconvenient Truth alerted a mostly unaware public to its imminent annihilation by climate change.
In almost 4 hours the director Alex Gibney disassembles the "false myth" of visionary genius, with Elon Musk's lawyers who threatened a lawsuit for defamation. From tomorrow in American cinemas, will he ever go out in Italy?
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