Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
Why do we climb the highest mountains? Why do we strive, in the face of adversity? What drives the human animal to excel, not just in the face of difficulty, but sheer, cussed impossibility? What, in other words, drives a man to transcend the basic limits of the species, and attempt to make one of the least funny human beings who\u2019s ever lived come off in any way humorous?<\/p>\n
These philosophical musings brought to you by news<\/a> that\u00a0The Studio\u2018s Ike Barinholtz\u2014fresh off scoring his first-ever Emmy nomination after a long career in TV comedy\u2014is in talks to join Luca Guadagnino\u2019s \u201chistory of AI\u201d dramedy\u00a0Artificial\u00a0in the role of World\u2019s Richest Man\/Worst Poster Elon Musk. The script for the film\u2014written by Simon Rich, and apparently centered on tumultuous times at Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI\u2014reportedly features Musk in a few scenes of \u201cvillainy and comic relief,\u201d<\/a> so at least it doesn\u2019t sound like Barinholtz will be required to try to make us laugh with\u00a0any, say, genuinely embarrassing meme posts.<\/p>\n Also in\u00a0Artificial\u00a0news: Cooper Hoffman has just been cast in the film, although the part he\u2019s playing hasn\u2019t been revealed just yet. Hoffman joins a cast that also includes Yuri Borisov, Andrew Garfield, and Cooper Koch\u2014and, yes, that is\u00a0more Coopers than you typically find anywhere outside a meet-up of the Associated Cooperage Industries Of America. (\u201cThe Official Trade Association Of The Wooden Barrel Industry!\u201d<\/a>) The film, meanwhile, is one of like six movies that Challengers\u00a0director Guadagnino is apparently percolating right now, although given that there\u2019s an actual script and casting for this one, it feels a bit further along than, say, his American Psycho\u00a0remake.<\/p>\n [via\u00a0Deadline<\/a>]<\/p>\n Awkwafina and Ike Barinholtz to star in true crime podcasting comedy Crime After Crime<\/a>GLOW’s Betty Gilpin joins Ike Barinholtz and Glenn Howerton in Damon Lindelof’s political thriller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste Why do we climb the highest mountains?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}