{"id":298416,"date":"2025-12-04T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:55:07","slug":"writer-says-his-elon-spacex-biographical-series-has-died-at-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298416\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer says his Elon\/SpaceX biographical series has “died” at HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashlee Vance, author of one of a couple of Elon Musk biographies floating around out there\u2014and specifically the SpaceX-focused Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, And The Quest For A Fantastic Future\u2014has popped up on social media this week to state that a planned HBO adaptation of the series has now formally \u201cdied\u201d at HBO.<\/p>\n

The series was initially announced to be in development back in 2020, when Musk was in a different, arguably less-immediately-impactful-to-a-regular-person phase in his campaign to be the main character of a planetary dystopia. (We\u2019re talking two years before he bought Twitter, for instance, in case it\u2019s all turned into a time slurry slowly drizzling through your heads the way it has for us.) At the very least, it was a period of time where HBO could be forgiven for thinking they were signing on\u2014with Channing Tatum in a producing role\u2014for a show about some flavor of visionary, and not that guy who turns meme names into actual programs for chopping the United States\u2019 foreign aid budget into pieces.<\/p>\n

Vance claimed in his post\u2014on X, natch<\/a>\u2014that he and his team \u201cHad some wonderful scripts. They were smart and funny and true to life. I imagine it would have been a massive hit.\u201d Suggesting that people are afraid to make a project about Musk now, Vance noted that the rights to his book have now reverted to him, in case any TV studios with hagiography in their hearts and cash burning a hole in their pockets want to bite.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, while HBO hasn\u2019t commented directly on Vance\u2019s post,\u00a0Deadline\u00a0does quote sources<\/a> who actually say the project was passed on by the network a few years back, making it less clear why the author, who\u2019s also apparently producing projects on brain-computer interfaces and OpenAI\u2014guy has a type, we\u2019ll give him that\u2014is opening up about the whole thing falling apart now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashlee Vance, author of one of a couple of Elon Musk biographies floating around out there\u2014and specifically the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-298416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}