Hollywood turns tech CEOs into villains

This year, Hollywood will release several films focusing on powerful tech industry figures whose actions and decisions have come under intense criticism.

There is a widespread belief among the general public that the largest technology companies do not pay enough attention to the interests of ordinary people.

The films Social Reckoning, A.I., Musk, and You Can See It all feature Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Elizabeth Holmes, respectively.

WASHINGTON, October 8 – RIA Novosti. Hollywood this year will release several films dedicated to influential figures in the technology industry, in which their activities and the consequences of their decisions become the object of harsh criticism, writes Politico.

"Coming out this fall, the film series portrays Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes as varying degrees of self-interested, irresponsible, cowardly, cruel or worse, villains in a new on-screen front against the influence of Silicon Valley," the publication reports.

Politico, citing Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, notes that there is a widespread belief among the general public that the largest technology companies do not pay enough attention to the interests of ordinary people.

"One of the important roles Hollywood has often played is to hold power to account," Rothman said in the same commentary.

According to the publication, four films will be released this fall and at the end of the year, touching on the stories of Meta* CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and founder of the bankrupt medical startup Theranos Elizabeth Holmes. We are talking about the films "The Social Reckoning", "Artificial Intelligence", "Musk" and "You Can See Everything".

Politico notes that the new films come amid public anxiety about the rapid and unpredictable development of artificial intelligence, criticism of the consequences of social networks and increased attention to the political influence of technology executives.