Damon Albarn to score biopic about OpenAI

Damon Albarn will score an upcoming biopic about OpenAI. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers) and written by Simon Rich (Saturday Night Live, The New Yorker), Artificial chronicles OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s turbulent firing and rehiring by the company in 2023.

Damon Albarn in conversation with The Needle Drop. AI discussion begins at 27:18. 

The Blur and Gorillaz frontman confirmed the news in an interview with online music reviewer The Needle Drop, which he appeared on to talk about Gorillaz’s newest album The Mountain. “I don’t think it’s possible for AI to make soulful music.” Albarn said in the interview when discussing the technology’s rapid rise within the entertainment industry, “I’ve been quite involved with AI because I’ve been making a score for a movie called Artificial at the moment, which is all about the founders of ChatGPT.” 

Recently, Albarn and Gorillaz released The Mountain to acclaim, with the virtual band recently dropping a hand-crafted short film The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God and announcing their first tour of North America since 2022. Skiddle recently took a closer look at the band and the visual style of co-creator Jamie Hewlett in a recent Sound & Vision editorial. 

Guadagnino is no stranger to working with musicians on his projects, having worked with Sufjan Stevens on Call Me By Your Name and Trent Reznor on Bones & All, Challengers, Queer, and After The Hunt. The upcoming biopic will star Andrew Garfield as Altman alongside Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown) as OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati and Ike Barinholtz (The Studio) as Elon Musk. 

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