As much as Mountainhead director Jesse Armstrong protests that his characters are not based on anyone in real life, the tech oligarchs at the center of his new film are obvious parallels to some of the richest men in the world. Armstrong’s HBO series, Succession , poked fun at media dynasties like the Murdoch family. Now, in Mountainhead , the satirist takes aim at Elon Musk , Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and more.

The film—which premiered on HBO Max on Saturday, May 31—follows four of the richest men in the world as they meet for a boy’s night during a global catastrophe. The richest one among them, Venis "Ven" Parish (Cory Michael Smith) uploads new AI tools to his social networking platforming, Traam, which circulates dangerous deepfakes and causes global unr

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