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,

There’s a scene in HBO’s Mountainhead where Jason Schwartzman cheerfully hops on a Zoom call with Argentinian leaders to discuss—quite literally—buying and taking over their country. “Who’s who of the coup?” his character, a tech CEO named Hugo Van Yalk, says with a grin.

Director Jesse Armstrong’s HBO movie "Mountainhead" can’t match “Succession,” but its warnings about oligarchs and AI feel set in reality.

Jesse Armstrong, the creator of “Succession,” is borrowing from the lives of tech savants for his new film with a helping hand from costume designer Susan Lyall.

HBO's "Mountainhead," from "Succession" creator Jesse Armstrong, looks at those who “have incredible authority and power over all of our lives.”

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.”

Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman star in a movie about a meeting of massively wealthy men from ‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong.