The richest man on the planet is getting the silver display screen remedy. Selection has confirmed {that a} biopic about multi-billionaire businessman Elon Musk is within the works at A24, with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky connected to direct.
The biopic’s screenplay will probably be based mostly on Elon Musk, the biography by former Time editor Walter Isaacson. Isaacson isn’t any stranger to biographies of highly effective males, having written detailed accounts on the life and occasions of Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger, and Steve Jobs. That final guide was tailored into the 2015 Common movie Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, who earned an Oscar nomination for enjoying the late Apple founder. Per Selection, there was an intense bidding battle to choice Isaacson’s novel, with indie movie studio A24, which produced final 12 months’s greatest image winner Every thing In every single place All at As soon as, popping out on prime.
Aronofsky most just lately directed 2022’s The Whale for A24, which earned an Oscar nomination for greatest image and received star Brendan Fraser an Oscar for greatest actor earlier this 12 months. Previous to The Whale, Aronofsky helmed psychological and surreal character research together with Mom! (2017), starring Jennifer Lawrence, Requiem for a Dream (2000) starring Ellen Burstyn, and Black Swan (2010) starring Natalie Portman, who received the Oscar for greatest actress.
Born in South Africa, Musk grew to become a serious participant on the world stage within the late 1900s, when he co-founded a monetary firm that might finally merge with Paypal. In 2002, he based SpaceX, a spacecraft manufacturing firm. Musk went on to turn into an early investor in Tesla, the electrical automotive firm, finally changing into its chairman, product architect, and CEO. In 2018, he stepped down as chairman of Tesla after he was sued by the SEC for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a non-public takeover of Tesla. In September of of 2021, Musk surpassed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos because the richest individual on the planet, with a internet price of over $200 billion.
In 2023, he purchased the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter for $44 million, rebranded it as X, and, arguably, ruined the platform. Since coming beneath Musk’s management, X has misplaced roughly 55% of its U.S. advert income, and is presently valued at $19 billion—lower than half of what he paid for it. Nonetheless, Musk’s present internet price is estimated to be price slightly below $200 billion.
Financials apart, Musk’s private life gives greater than sufficient materials for a film. In April of 2021, Vainness Honest revealed that the 52-year-old had a second little one, named Exa Darkish Sideræl, along with his then-partner, musician Grimes, that was heretofore unknown to the general public. (They’ve since had a 3rd little one collectively.) Musk is the daddy of 11 youngsters by three totally different ladies, most just lately twins Strider and Azure with 37-year-old Shivon Zilis, an AI specialist and govt at Neuralink, an organization that Musk based. He is additionally fairly energetic on X and significantly keen on posting jokes and memes, a lot of that are consider to be stolen from different accounts. Time will inform if any of Musk’s makes an attempt at comedy will make it into his biopic.
