{"id":175828,"date":"2023-11-11T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a24s-making-an-elon-musk-biopic-directed-by-darren-aronofsky"},"modified":"2023-11-11T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:22:29","slug":"a24s-making-an-elon-musk-biopic-directed-by-darren-aronofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a24s-making-an-elon-musk-biopic-directed-by-darren-aronofsky","title":{"rendered":"A24\u2019s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfiRd4Y5z_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is getting the Hollywood treatment. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/elon-musk-biopic-a24-darren-aronofsky-1235787115\/\" class=\"\"><i>Variety<\/i> reports<\/a> that indie movie studio A24 has won the rights to adapt Walter Isaacson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-tears\" class=\"\">recent biography<\/a> about the business magnate, with \u201cBlack Swan\u201d and \u201cRequiem for a Dream\u201d director Darren Aronofsky slated to direct. There\u2019s no official word on who\u2019s playing Musk yet, though there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=elon%20musk%20actor&src=typed_query\" class=\"\">plenty of wild suggestions<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, studios were embroiled in \u201cheated competition\u201d for Isaacson\u2019s latest book, which was released this September. The author\u2019s last biography on a tech titan, Steve Jobs, was also adapted into a movie of the same name in 2015. Of course, the main attraction here is Musk, whose penchant for controversy is matched only by his enormous popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/twitter-elon-musk-value-halves\" class=\"\">calamitous takeover of X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, his <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-fans-ukraine\" class=\"\">questionable antics on the platform<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-trouble-faa-starship-explosion\" class=\"\">epic fallout<\/a> of his <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/starship-first-orbital-explodes\" class=\"\">Starship rocket launch<\/a>, Musk has somehow managed to shove himself further into the limelight this year, after a decade of building an already far-reaching image off the success of his companies SpaceX and Tesla. For better or worse, everyone now has an opinion on the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is getting the Hollywood treatment. Variety reports that indie movie studio A24 has won the rights to adapt Walter Isaacson\u2019s recent biography about the business magnate, with \u201cBlack Swan\u201d and \u201cRequiem for a Dream\u201d director Darren Aronofsky slated to direct. There\u2019s no official word on who\u2019s playing Musk yet, though there\u2019s plenty of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}