*Courtesy of Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.*

Amazon MGM Studios has parted ways with Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

According to reports that first surfaced Friday in Puck, the Andrew Garfield-led project will now be offered to other studios. The decision reportedly came from Mike Hopkins, the head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, who informed Guadagnino and the film’s producing team.

The move comes just months after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI through a multiyear strategic partnership designed to speed up the company’s use of Amazon Web Services.

“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” an Amazon spokesperson said to The Hollywood Reporter. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”

Described as a Social Network-style drama filmed in San Francisco and Italy, Artificial stars Garfield as Altman and follows the chaotic 2023 episode at OpenAI in which Altman was ousted and then reinstated within days. The cast also includes Anora breakout Yura Borisov as OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who helped lead the effort to remove Altman; Monica Barbaro as chief technology officer Mira Murati; and Ike Barinholtz as Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

The project, which was announced only last year, would have marked Guadagnino’s third collaboration with Amazon MGM, following ‘After the Hunt,’ starring Garfield alongside Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri, and 2024’s ‘Challengers.’

MORE NEWS