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From Sam Altman to Elizabeth Holmes, Hollywood’s Big Tech Obsession Goes Viral

Hollywood is turning Silicon Valley's most controversial figures into movie subjects, TikTok memes and box-office draws. Whether any of it amounts to a reckoning is another question.

Mark Zuckerberg is back on the big screen. Sam Altman is getting the Luca Guadagnino treatment. Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk are the subjects of new documentaries. Hollywood has found plenty to work with in Big Tech’s scandals. Whether audiences want to watch is another matter.

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Sony Pictures’ The Social Reckoning, directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong and Mikey Madison, follows the 2021 Facebook whistleblower scandal. Madison plays Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who provided internal company documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (White), exposing what the company knew about the harmful effects of its platforms. Strong plays Zuckerberg.

Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, a satirical drama starring Andrew Garfield as Altman, dives into OpenAI’s history, including the chaotic five-day firing and rapid rehiring of its chief executive in 2023. The movie had a buzzy premiere at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 5 and is set to hit theaters Dec. 25.

Meanwhile, audiences are gearing up for Nathan Fielder........

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