{"id":745814,"date":"2026-09-02T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-unmasked-in-alex-gibney-documentary\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:00:45","slug":"elon-musk-unmasked-in-alex-gibney-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-unmasked-in-alex-gibney-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ad02d83b1201\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ad02d83b1201\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-unmasked-in-alex-gibney-documentary\/#The_Musk_Myth\" >The Musk Myth<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLate one August afternoon in a Manhattan editing suite, with thunder and lightning raging outside, a storm was also brewing inside. Or at least on the giant screen at the front of the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHow\u2019s power feeling, Mr. Musk?\u201d a bystander calls out to Elon Musk onscreen as the beaming tech mogul strides through a post-inauguration Washington building. In the next scene, Musk sits at a roundtable with his army of early 20s DOGE staffers, looking on proudly alongside Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 Jesse Watters. The young men talk with easy, deluded confidence about how they will fix government as Watters jokingly refers to the notoriously anatomical nickname of one of the men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignleft size-thr-medium alignleft lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:348px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((435\/348)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/16cov_Musk_hi_res_print-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=348\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"435\" width=\"348\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Illustration by Robert Carter<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAt the back of the editing room, Alex Gibney, the longtime documentarian and the closest the current film world has to a Bob Woodward, watches intently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cLet\u2019s do that \u2018power\u2019 quote hotter,\u201d Gibney says to a team of five that includes his frequent producer Erin Edeiken and sound mixer Tony Volante. \u201cHotter? Yes,\u201d Volante says, adjusting levels on the screen in front of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney has been working since late 2022 trying to get a temperature read on Musk only to see the mercury continue to climb. He had finished \u2014 or thought he had finished \u2014 a two-hour HBO documentary on Musk in late 2024, having plumbed the controversial entrepreneur\u2019s childhood, his early PayPal-ish forays into Silicon Valley, his supercharging of SpaceX, his takeover of Tesla, his launching of the satellites of Starlink, his hirings and firings at Neuralink, his bull run into <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, his various mad dashes through wives and baby mamas, and many other events that would make most humans seek out a long, uninterrupted Xanax vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThen Musk donated ungodly sums and made <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earances to help deliver the presidency to Donald Trump, who returned the favor by giving Musk the Chewbacca seat on the Millennium Falcon. Suddenly the story seemed to hold another chapter. HBO executives called Gibney telling him they wanted and would finance more. He kept shooting. And shot some more. For nearly two additional years, all the way to a six-hour cut of the movie that went deep on Musk\u2019s 2025 DOGE era and his SpaceX IPO plate-spin this summer. (The film has since been cut down.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOver the course of a decorated career, Gibney, 72, had taken on Scientology and Enron, the U.S. military and Vladimir Putin, the Catholic Church and Wall Street. All of that prepared him, though nothing could really prepare him, for this magnum Musk creation \u2014 cinema\u2019s premier curtain-puller on power revealing the man who has amassed so much of it. When it comes out this fall, <em>Musk<\/em> will look to change the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> in several crucial ways, lining up a target that Hollywood never shoots at, seeking to become a hit documentary in an era allergic to them and trying to open the eyes of American voters to a key Republican electoral arms dealer who Gibney says is mounting an unfair fight. At stake with <em>Musk, <\/em>its creator wants to tell us, is nothing less than the future of democracy. And to spread that message, he has enlisted some of the biggest media companies around \u2014 including, improbably enough, the one soon to be owned by Trump ally David Ellison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tToday, Gibney is making small tweaks to finish the film in time for screenings at the Venice and Toronto film festivals in September (three hours, 45 minutes), a wide theatrical release in October (ditto) and an HBO debut in 2027 (four hours). There are sounds to adjust and effects to complete and even video game reenactments to perfect. What better way to take on a maximalist than maximally?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe sound on the DOGE scene in front of him calibrated, Gibney gives a small look of approval. \u201cGreat,\u201d he says. \u201cNow let\u2019s go to Watters and Big Balls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tElon Musk is not an obvious candidate for a documentary. A documentary aims to tell us something new, and Elon Musk epitomizes the familiar. We take stock of his trolls on X, we see him artwash his image on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, we get a load of his engineering and entrepreneurial genius from biographer Walter Isaacson, we learn about his stock market genius on CNBC, we hear him talk about the goal of further populating the planet, we hear one example after another of his personal efforts in pursuit of that goal, we eye with skepticism his proclaiming the age of Mars colonization and extraterrestrial data centers, we watch him (and then try to unwatch him) gleefully talk of slashing-and-burning aid workers from inside White House meeting rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo much Musk have we ambiently ingested these past few years that perhaps the best cultural gift might be a break from all that, an Elon-free zone populated with anyone besides the 55-year-old provocateur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYet Gibney aggressively wants to challenge that instinct, and he may have a point. None of what we have seen and thought about Musk can fully ready us for what the filmmaker has done here \u2014 an adventurous but methodical movie grounded in the thesis that, as he sees it, a dangerous huckster is stealthily aggregating power to exploit us, primarily by centralizing and controlling massive amounts of data. Gibney\u2019s basic take on Musk is that he\u2019s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches \u2014 but can do a whole lot of damage until that happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film world-premieres Sept. 8 at Venice. But its cultural reach will likely extend far beyond that. <em>Musk<\/em> stands poised to touch off a fresh wave of anger and fear among the millions already inclined to worry about him, into and well after the midterms, while fueling a whole lot of trollishness (and worse?) from the many who worship at the temple of Elon Musk, including Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney has crafted a movie that, while not new in its specifics, is often damning in its totality, standing apart from anything the media entertainment complex has recently turned out \u2014 a portrait of power with the cinematic scope of <em>All the King\u2019s Men<\/em> and the potential social impact of <em>The Pentagon Papers<\/em>. (\u201cIt\u2019s rare these days to see a complete story instead of the fragments we\u2019re used to,\u201d says Anonymous Content\u2019s Nick Shumaker, a producer on the film.) Some will surely find <em>Musk<\/em> overly negative and conspiratorial. Yet nearly every time the film seems like it might tip into paranoid fantasy, Gibney unearths a new fact or asks a new commonsense question to steady us back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney spends the first half of the film coming at Musk for various alleged sins, including stealing credit from original Tesla founder Martin Eberhard; bullying a woman who birthed his child to sign an NDA; pumping his stocks with shaky talk of Mars exploration and full self-driving cars (the latter of which Gibney also alleges are responsible for more than 60 deaths); and turning a light on the monkeys experimented on at Neuralink who advocacy groups say suffered needlessly. Not nearly as adept at all the substantive tasks of running a company as he claims, Elon Musk, Gibney argues, excels mainly at selling tall tales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEven the multiple levels of alleged villainy, however, seem narrow compared to what the director argues is the real game: world domination. In Gibney\u2019s telling, to witness Musk, intentionally or not, convert his satellite internet system, Starlink, into an unelected policymaker given its crucial role in Ukraine and other war-torn places; to see NASA rely so heavily on SpaceX to perpetuate its space program; to watch Musk seemingly use Twitter to garner business favors from world leaders like Modi and Milei; to look with growing dread as the data collected by DOGE potentially becomes a sleeper cell for campaign research and political retaliation \u2014 to observe all of this is to gaze upon a man interested not only in wealth and status but in an oligarchal sway that transcends elections\u2019 fickle seasons. Donald Trump may have spent six years bringing the branches of government to heel. But in Gibney\u2019s accounting, Musk is in the process of pulling off something far more menacing: rendering government obsolete altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTwo revelations, or at least intimations, especially stand out, both involving elections and Musk\u2019s alleged techno- surveilling means of moving them for Republicans. In one, Musk ex and former conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, a central figure in the documentary, describes the events of Trump\u2019s election in November 2024. Musk, she says, had a \u201cdegree of certainty\u201d about the results before they came in that \u201cI had never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHe had told me [before the election] he was going to unleash the \u2018anomaly in the matrix,\u2019 \u201d she recounts, as a text exchange between them pops up onscreen backing up the claim. We see Musk telling her, \u201cI have ten thousand lasers in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cSo you think he was referring to Starlink?\u201d Gibney asks off-camera. St. Clair replies, \u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know where else he has space lasers.\u201d Gibney leaves the insinuation hanging \u2014 was this a troll or a confession? \u2014 but hints he is taking it seriously when he then says in his patented voiceover, \u201cWhat is Elon building, what are his goals, what are his actual motivations, and do we even know this man at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe other piece of the electoral-manipulation insinuation looks not backward but forward and suggests that Musk\u2019s four-month stint in Washington last year did more than gleefully ax 270,000 federal employees and untold billions in life-saving aid (though a section on the latter, anchored by former USAID chief Samantha Power, lands with an outraging wallop). During that time, Gibney suggests, Musk also had access to and potentially collected intimate data on tens of millions of Americans possibly even for later political use. In a follow-up email, Gibney explains further: \u201cWe don\u2019t know what DOGE\/Musk did with the data to which they had access. What we do know \u2014 via my own source who ran IT at a major federal agency and via the whistleblowers and public accounts \u2014 is that the DOGE Boys had Super Admin status to federal IT systems. That means they could just slide a copy of the data on all of us to SpaceX as easily as dropping a file into a folder.\u201d (The allegation of salting away data squares with a whistleblower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration\u2019s chief data officer.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHow much data exists in the federal government about every single person living in this country, their voting records, everything that they had ever done?\u201d <em>Wired<\/em> editor-in-chief Katie Drummond, whose publication led much of this coverage, says in the movie. \u201cImagine what an AI could do if it can be trained on all that information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGeoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-prize-winning godfather of AI, offers a specific use case: leveraging the data into an unfair campaign advantage. \u201cIt\u2019s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,\u201d he says onscreen. \u201cIf you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens. And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((663\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ALEX_GIBNEY_CHESSUM_000009330021_V2x-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"663\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Documentarian Alex Gibney, photographed Aug.\u202f20 in Brooklyn, has made a career of exposing abusive power structures, from the U.S. military to Scientology. In Musk, he feels he has found a uniquely dangerous subject: Musk may have left Trump\u2019s side, but what havoc could he wreak, Gibney asks, with the data he surely collected from his short stint atop the so-called Department of Government Efficiency? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Photographed by Jake Chessum<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFor much of the past 20 years, as television news resources and audiences for longform investigation have waned, documentary filmmakers have risen to take their place. Leading that class has been Gibney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA kind of documentary journeyman, Gibney\u2019s standing changed in the mid-2000s, when, after the age of 50, he directed the eye-opening Oscar nominee <em>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/em> and <em>Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em>, an intimate, upsetting story of the killing of an Afghan taxi driver by American soldiers during an interrogation. Arriving in George W. Bush\u2019s second term, the film became a focal point for all the frustrations and qualms around the War on Terror. A spate of expos\u00e9s of other corroded powerful institutions followed as Gibney turned into a kind of investigative journalism gunslinger, coming in to showdown against powerful institutions when few others would.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAll those films feel like they were leading to this, a point even Gibney will concede. \u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the path, but it\u2019s definitely a distillation of the journey,\u201d he says of <em>Musk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs Gibney sits in the edit bay adjusting small details \u2014 \u201cLet\u2019s let Trump\u2019s voice go on longer and more distorted so it reads like it\u2019s in Elon\u2019s head,\u201d he says during an Oval Office scene \u2014 his worldview comes into focus. Gibney\u2019s tendency is to see the darker side of power and the powerful side of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, tendencies that cast him as an outlier in the 2010s but have made him more relevant as the years have gone on. In an interview with this reporter about his Stuxnet film <em>Zero Days<\/em> a decade ago, he outlined hacking threats that seemed exotic, like compromising an American water system. With reports recently about Iranian operatives trying to do just that, they don\u2019t seem so outlandish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI try to tell a story that opens our eyes and makes us ask the right questions,\u201d he says, speaking of <em>Musk<\/em> but offering a touchstone that might apply to many of his films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney here has set out to make a movie less about its subject\u2019s history than his future. Sam Harris, the right-leaning podcaster and friend turned enemy of Musk, lays out this theme onscreen near the end of the film. \u201cWe are living in a world where one person\u2019s psychopathology and neuropsychological dysregulation is translating into massive consequence in our politics, in our economy, in our geopolitics,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s completely insane we have one person who\u2019s this chaotic \u2014 who\u2019s completely unelected \u2014 and has this much power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney makes it clear that he doesn\u2019t think such voices are hyperbolic, and that it is only a certain kind of American heuristic that prevents us from hearing them. \u201cPeople assume because he\u2019s very rich that he\u2019s not crazy,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the terrifying thing might be that he\u2019s crazy and he\u2019s very rich and powerful. That\u2019s the warning bell the film sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe director\u2019s method for ringing that alarm will surely draw debate. Musk did not sit for an interview, going on the offensive at the announcement of the film three years ago by taking to X to call it a \u201chit piece.\u201d This prompted Gibney, who never met a diss he couldn\u2019t deadpan back, to reply \u201cHow would you know?\u201d The line was meant as both undress and challenge, as Gibney at that time still sought an interview. When Musk effectively ended that hope by tweeting, \u201cGibney is a douche,\u201d Gibney parried back, \u201cDouch\u00e9,\u201d marking perhaps the first time in human history that a rap battle was settled with an accent aigu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat rejection turned out to be a blessing, birthing dozens of outside sources Gibney turned to instead, on- and off-camera. It also yielded a formal magic trick unexpected in the work of an Oscar-winning documentarian. Gibney and his research team scraped the internet for any audio of Musk they could find. They then created \u2014 stick with me here \u2014 a video game avatar of Musk speaking those words, <em>Ready Player One<\/em>-style. The Musk avatar also, in a pair of first-person-shooter sequences, moves through the world as a vintage video game character, complete with health bars and lives left and colorful respawns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have gone there if Elon wasn\u2019t so relentless,\u201d Gibney tells me when asked what motivated this choice. \u201cBut over and over again in our research, Elon kept coming back to this idea of simulation, how we\u2019re living in an existential video game.\u201d Gibney adds, \u201cWe\u2019re playing with levels of reality, and the elements of the Elon Musk story are how he intends to define reality.\u201d (This same wry mischief can be found in the closing credits song, a bouncy original number written and performed by David Byrne that takes jagged pieces of Musk\u2019s own self-mythologizing quotes and slashes him with them.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe effect of Gibney\u2019s digital avatar is surreal, and also its own comment, at once turning Musk into a leather-jacketed larger-than-life character while completely gamifying all his ambitions. The way to neutralize the world\u2019s most powerful man, Gibney believes, is not to cower at his influence but to extend him the same cat-with-a-ball-of-yarn unseriousness he shows us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe move could certainly backfire at a moment when the documentary (and nondocumentary) film world is wary of digital replicas replacing the real thing and AI deepfakes blurring the truth-fiction line. But Gibney says the whimsical device comes in service of a larger truth: the unmasking of a man who has aggregated power only by duping us into thinking we should give it to him. \u201cThe Great and Terrible Oz kept people in check because they were afraid of his visage that loomed over everybody, and he used that power to exert an enormous amount of control,\u201d Gibney tells me. \u201cBut when a little dog pulled aside the curtain, and you can see a frumpy man operating gears and levers, suddenly he wasn\u2019t so terrible and he wasn\u2019t so great.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1564\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ALEX_GIBNEY_CHESSUM_MG_2677_V1x-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"1564\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">\u201cI try to tell a story that opens our eyes and makes us ask the right questions,\u201d notes Gibney, who says he initially admired Musk and proudly owned a Tesla car and solar panel system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Photographed by Jake Chessum<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney presents an intriguing paradox. A Maine resident, he is nonetheless a fixture on New York\u2019s media and entertainment social scene, moving among the kind of powerful people he frequently turns the heat-blaster on. If this has proved conflicting, Gibney does not let on, marching from sacred target to sacred target with little apparent tentativeness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe director has a kind of serious casualness in which he shoulders the weight of the world, but unfussily. Gibney\u2019s is a no-nonsense, bullshit-averse demeanor, which comes out in the editing session when a performative Trump administration ally appears onscreen, prompting an eye-rolling expression with some salty assessments tossed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFor someone who has made a career scalpeling the powerful, it perhaps comes as a surprise that Gibney had never thought of making a documentary about Elon Musk before \u2014 and in fact resisted the idea when the Chinese former real estate baron Zhang Xin suggested it to him in 2022 \u2014 feeling like so much had been said and, also, wasn\u2019t Musk sometimes a force for good, remaking industries at will?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cTo be honest, I was on the fence about it,\u201d Gibney says. \u201cBut then I talked to a close friend, and he said it was a film about 21st century power, and that resonated with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRealizing also that part of his daily life \u2014 he was long active on Twitter and had once bought Tesla solar panels \u2014 revolved around the mogul, and that no one was really asking questions about what this meant, Gibney sought early financing partners. He found a group of liberal-adjacent production companies ready to work with him, including Anonymous Content (<em>Navalny<\/em>), the upstart doc banner Double Agent (run by an indie film veteran named Dana O\u2019Keefe and joint venture of the narrative film producers Black Bear Pictures and New Regency) and Zhang Xin\u2019s Closer Media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGiven the sensitivity of taking on one of the world\u2019s most powerful men (who already viewed the movie as a hit piece), those producers might have expected that they would have to finance the making of the film itself without a sales partner. But when producers took the project out to the market, they were taken aback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCompanies that liked to play it safe were willing to take on the far right-flirting Musk. (It was, crucially, before he joined the Trump wagon, but still.) Most notably: Netflix, which pursued a deal despite the streamer avoiding globally polarizing topics like Jamal Khashoggi, surprising even some of the producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney weighed his options but felt most comfortable with another suitor, HBO\u2019s documentary division, with which he has done some of his most impactful work, including <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> about Theranos and Scientology. And so filmmakers in 2023 signed a pact with the platform for U.S. streaming and television rights. In doing so, the parties defied a long-held convention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHollywood is either averse to making Elon Musk films because of his politics or afraid of Elon Musk because he could sue,\u201d says Ashlee Vance, the author whose 2015 biography, <em>Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future<\/em>, itself was strangled in development by HBO in 2023 because of what Vance believes were those hesitations. \u201cIt makes it that much more surprising this film got through.\u201d (The idea of featuring Elon Musk, of course, has not been anathema in fictional works; as Gibney shows in the film, image-burnishing appearances have cropped up everywhere from<em> Iron Man<\/em> to <em>The Simpsons<\/em> to <em>SNL<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((667\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-1232778207-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Host Elon Musk during the monologue on <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>on Saturday, May 8, 2021 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Will Heath\/NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThen there was the matter of international rights. Most documentaries get sold territory by territory since the interests of countries on a given topic vary, as opposed to one worldwide distributor. This is especially true for a controversial subject \u2014 giant global players don\u2019t want a headache because of sensitivities in Croatia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAll of which made it unexpected that Universal, one of the biggest international film distributors around, wanted all foreign rights. For the filmmakers, this of course would potentially mean a lot more scrutiny and studio battles than with individual territory buyers. But the idea of making a bigger impact won out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHBO declined to comment about its involvement. This can seem like a strange turn \u2014 you can\u2019t put out a movie to tens of millions of people and not want folks to notice \u2014 but given Musk\u2019s power and eagerness for a brawl, perhaps logical too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnother entanglement comes in the form of one of the financier-producers. Black Bear is run by Teddy Schwarzman \u2014 son of Stephen Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone and someone who has moved in close circles with Musk, both men part of Trump delegations that met with foreign leaders. (Stephen Schwarzman has called Musk a \u201cfascinating guy\u201d and \u201cgood person.\u201d) His son\u2019s willingness to bankroll the most high-profile takedown of Musk in history makes for a potentially interesting Thanksgiving family dinner. Teddy Schwarzman, notably, did not personally take a credit on the film. He did not wish to comment for this piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHBO\u2019s centrality is especially intriguing. Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO\u2019s parent company, has been run by David Zaslav, a known associate of Musk, the two men prominently sitting together in a luxury box at the U.S. Open two years ago. Gibney\u2019s movie already was well underway. The two even discussed WBD television projects at the match, according to a person familiar with their conversation. But if Musk asked Zaslav to kill the film, the media executive didn\u2019t oblige.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYet huge questions remain given the upcoming changing state of WBD management. Incoming WBD owner Ellison may well run HBO by the time the movie hits the service on an unnamed date in the first half of 2027, and one can\u2019t imagine him feeling too enthused by the onscreen happenings. In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> air of Silicon Valley and Donald Trump skepticism, Ellison\u2019s father and principal financier, Larry Ellison, gets a negative shout-out when he is shown in text messages willing to airdrop Musk $2 billion to buy Twitter, no questions asked. This is not what people pay $111 billion in acquisition fees to platform. Would David Ellison ask for changes? Pull the plug and force producers to self-distribute? (The filmmakers in an unlikely coup retained paid VOD rights.) Gibney and the filmmaking team are holding their breath. So is everyone else.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((695\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-83912360-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"695\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Driven by his interest in colonizing Mars, Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Dan Tuffs\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((667\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2269595254-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Lost in Space A SpaceX rocket carrying a payload of Starlink satellites, adding to Musk\u2019s already massive fleet \u2014 and the power it affords him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Kevin Carter\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHow will the movie land with both the public and power brokers? Isaacson\u2019s 2023 book left a lot of reviewers cold with its lack of criticism but still sold a gazillion copies. Gibney\u2019s film could well prove all those book critics right and extend the skepticism to a general public that Musk has to this point kept at bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe days of <em>An Inconvenient Truth<\/em> and <em>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em>, in which a documentary becomes an event that moves both box office needles and public sentiment, are well behind us. But is it possible that at this post-Twitter moment, with a need for common vehicles of activism and a new town square, a citizenry this fall will find refuge in Gibney\u2019s movie? It could. Musk\u2019s butchering of the old public commons could deliciously be the reason we make his takedown the new one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s length could paradoxically work in its favor, too, rewarding those who soldier through its four-hour run time with a badge of endurance, not to mention cocktail party cred. \u201cThe thing that drives people to theaters is urgency \u2014 people feeling that they have to be part of a conversation,\u201d says Kent Sanderson, CEO of Bleecker Street, which is releasing the movie. \u201cAnd there\u2019s no conversation like the one around someone who affects every single person\u2019s life every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd don\u2019t sleep on the Oscar chattering class. <em>Musk<\/em> will get a big push for best documentary, and it remains, at this summer vantage point, hard to see what can match it. The biggest X factor, as it were, is how Musk responds. Social media trolls are almost certain, but would he go beyond that? Musk has a history of lashing out legally at those he perceives as harming his interests, filing lawsuits against boycotting Twitter advertisers and his AI rival Sam Altman. The insinuations of business hucksterism are one thing that could provoke him, more intimate details are another. Musk\u2019s personal life comes in for tough scrutiny in the film, with St. Clair\u2019s nauseating details about paternity-based NDA bullying and hush payments (stealth audio from a Musk fixer especially churns the stomach) and her no-comment about his drug use, and with a revealing childhood story Musk\u2019s father tells in which a family friend undergoes a medical emergency while they were all on a road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> in Musk\u2019s native South Africa. The man dies as everyone tries to resuscitate him. Young Elon, his father recounts, reads a comic book, unreactive through the entire episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGibney and HBO are insured, and a high-profile group of lawyers has been vigorously stress-testing the film. (Helping matters is that Gibney bases large portions of the documentary on the published work of text journalists from <em>Wired<\/em> to <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>; the movie is nothing if not a valedictory for journalism.) Yet that has never stopped a litigious tycoon \u2014 especially these days \u2014 from going after a media outlet to make a point or extract some concession.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((667\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2217852297-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlternatively, Musk could learn from the Church of Scientology, which to protest the alleged misrepresentations in Gibney\u2019s 2013 expos\u00e9 <em>Going Clear <\/em>took out a full-page ad in <em>The New York Times<\/em> seeking to debunk the movie. It sent viewership skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs Gibney locks in during the editing session, all of that future noise stays outside. More relevant is Musk\u2019s future, as the director tweaks a scene about what the mogul is up to next (humanoid robots and launching himself off a burning planet to Mars).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAs he accretes more power, he\u2019s no longer interested in checking his worst impulses,\u201d Gibney says to me, reflecting on Musk\u2019s trajectory. The director pauses, remembering a moment from his reporting. \u201cSomeone who worked closely with Elon told me, \u2018He\u2019s the most miserable man I\u2019ve ever met.\u2019 So he\u2019s inflicting his misery on everyone else.\u201d The suffering will pile up, Gibney says, until we see what\u2019s behind Toto\u2019s curtain.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Musk_Myth\"><\/span>\n\t\tThe Musk Myth\t<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>How Hollywood burnished the entrepreneur\u2019s image as a benevolent genius.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Iron Man 2<\/em> (2010) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe mere juxtaposition of Musk and Tony Stark implants the idea that the former inspired the latter. The line Musk utters to a passing Robert Downey Jr. (\u201cI have a good idea for an electric jet\u201d) suggests a concept he never had and the reaction of Stark (\u201cThen we\u2019ll make it work\u201d) an easy execution he\u2019s seldom achieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>The Simpsons<\/em> (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMusk arrives in Springfield, where he promptly sets out making alternative energy power plants to help humanity even at the expense of his own profit. Lisa calls him \u201cpossibly the greatest living inventor,\u201d and characters regard him as \u201can intelligence far beyond ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt feels great to come down here and help the less fortunate,\u201d a real-life Musk tells an awestruck Howard Wolowitz in a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving. Elon Musk, he\u2019s just like us (only more charitable).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Rick and Morty<\/em> (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMusk plays an alternate-reality version of himself known as \u201cElon Tusk,\u201d who joins the title pair in a plan to defeat the evil Heisotron, even polishing his family-man image with a reference to his kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>(2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn inviting Musk (pictured above) to host (over the objections of some castmembers), the show mostly let him good-naturedly clean up his COVID conspiracy theories, give free plugs to DOGEcoin, garner sympathy by discussing his self-reported Aspberger\u2019s and talk about sending people to Mars in a rocket ship as if it\u2019s a real thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>This story appeared in the Sept. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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