{"id":610649,"date":"2026-09-24T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:30:20","slug":"musk-trailer-elon-gets-the-documentary-he-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610649\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Trailer: Elon Gets the Documentary He Deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know a fair bit about tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elon Musk<\/a>, then you know that the trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/alex-gibney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Gibney<\/a>\u2019s new documentary doesn\u2019t get as deep as it could into the full range of his weirdness. However, a lot is still touched upon, from his efforts to colonize Mars, his dismantling of key American government agencies, his takeover of Twitter, and the ever-evolving answer to the question \u201cexactly how many kids does he have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The simply-titled Musk also makes a point of calling out the way that Musk refers to himself as the founder of Tesla, despite only being the lead investor \u2014 \u201cthere\u2019s no legal definition of founder,\u201d a talking head points out.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this trailer, it\u2019s pretty obvious why Musk has already pissed off its subject. So you should of course watch it, especially for the chance to preview David Byrne\u2019s original song for the soundtrack (<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/09\/david-byrne-uses-elon-musks-own-words-for-oscar-qualifying-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">using Musk\u2019s own words for the lyrics<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Musk premieres in limited release on October 9th, and goes wide the following weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you know a fair bit about tech billionaire Elon Musk, then you know that the trailer for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-610649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610649","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=610649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}