Jesse Armstrong, Mountainhead and Movie Streaming
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"Succession" meets AI anxiety in Jesse Armstrong's feature-length directorial debut, starring Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith. Review.
In ‘Mountainhead’, the ‘Succession’ creator’s fictional tech titans illustrate “what happens to people as they try to marry their egos with their moral impulses.”
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Note: This story contains spoilers from "Mountainhead." If "Mountainhead" made you feel disturbed and horrified, that's kind of the point. "It does and should feel a little scary. It's a prescient film,
Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead takes aim at tech bros like Sam Altman, delivering sharp satire on AI, Hollywood chaos, and power plays.
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The Independent on MSNJesse Armstrong discusses how Chris Langham’s ‘tragic’ exit led to a ‘new version’ of The Thick of ItJesse Armstrong discusses how Chris Langham’s ‘tragic’ exit led to a ‘new version’ of The Thick of It - Langham played bumbling minister Hugh Abbot in the first and second season of the hit political
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Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and Alex Godfrey — getting to grips with the definition of in media res as this week's listener question has the team chatting about some of their favourite films that throw you right into the action.
I had traveled to Park City to meet him on the set of Mountainhead, a film he wrote and directed for HBO (and which premieres this weekend). Mountainhead is an ambitious, extremely timely project about a group of tech billionaires gathering for a snowy poker weekend just as one of them releases AI-powered tools that cause a global crisis.