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Something I realized watching the first teaser trailer<\/a> for Luca Guadagnino\u2019s Artificial, the OpenAI movie once dropped by Amazon MGM<\/a>, then saved by NEON<\/a>, is I didn\u2019t know how Sam Altman looked when he walked. I knew what he looked like testifying in front of Congress or as a talking head on the news. But walking around a Silicon Valley campus? That Altman was a mystery to me, though whatever Andrew Garfield is doing \u2014 semi-hunched shoulders, jaunty speed walk, an almost musical cadence to his gait \u2014 feels right, so much so that it\u2019s almost scary. That\u2019s the main takeaway from the first teaser, at least: This is a guy who is, well, scary. Surrounded by guns, teary-eyed at the thought of artificial intelligence gaining power at the risk of destroying society \u2014 this is the Sam Altman Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Garfield want us to see.<\/p>\n \u201cWe opened Pandora\u2019s box together,\u201d Garfield\u2019s Altman says in the trailer\u2019s voice-over. \u201cThe future\u2019s inevitable.\u201d The one person who looks a bit skeptical about this is Yura Borisov (Ilya Sutskever), the OpenAI co-founder who led the charge to get Altman booted from the company. It\u2019s a bit funny, 16 years after The Social Network, to have a fall awards season with both a spiritual sequel to Social Network and a different movie in which Garfield plays a tech founder who does stuff like write equations on a glass wall in dry-erase marker. The long tail of 2010 lives on, but this time Garfield gets to play the supervillain \u2014 or so it seems.<\/p>\n Artificial will premiere at New York Film Festival ahead of a theatrical release on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n