{"id":594070,"date":"2026-09-08T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:36:11","slug":"watch-the-trailer-for-the-elon-musk-documentary-that-musk-is-mad-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594070\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Trailer for the Elon Musk Documentary That Musk Is Mad About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teaser for the new Elon Musk<\/a> documentary is here \u2014\u00a0and it ends on an explosive note.<\/p>\n

Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival<\/a>. Around the same time, a 48-second teaser trailer for the upcoming film appeared on YouTube.<\/p>\n

The teaser layers voiced commentary on Elon Musk \u2014\u00a0from the “greatest capitalist in history” to “fascist” \u2014\u00a0over videos of rocket launches. It promises an “unflinching look at Earth’s most unchecked man.”<\/p>\n

Over videos of explosions from failed SpaceX launches comes the title: “Musk.”<\/p>\n

For the record, Musk himself isn’t happy<\/a> with the documentary. The Tesla CEO called the film a “hit piece” in August and asked whether Gibney was trying to “bore people to death” with the film’s almost four-hour runtime.<\/p>\n

Musk’s comments were before the film’s premiere. “How would you know,” Gibney shot back.<\/p>\n

For those not jet-setting to Venice, the film will premiere in select theaters on October 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teaser for the new Elon Musk documentary is here \u2014\u00a0and it ends on an explosive note. Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[256752,11220,16103,3146,292857,156,40737,292858,292860,409,17449,111,139,69,292862,292859,292863,292861,14249,416],"class_list":["post-594070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alex-gibney","tag-comment","tag-commentary","tag-earth","tag-elon-musk-documentary","tag-entertainment","tag-explosion","tag-first-teaser","tag-four-hour-runtime","tag-movies","tag-musk","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-spacex-launch","tag-teaser-layer","tag-unchecked-man","tag-unflinching-look","tag-upcoming-film","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}