{"id":730911,"date":"2026-06-28T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730911\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:30:26","slug":"luca-guadagnino-cant-talk-about-amazon-ditching-artificial-but-hes-happy-to-trash-talk-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730911\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino can’t talk about Amazon ditching Artificial, but he’s happy to trash talk AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week<\/a>, we reported on the surprising-if-you\u2019re-napping news that Amazon was bailing on its plans to distribute Luca Guadagnino\u2019s new film Artificial, a movie that reportedly (and, surely, coincidentally!) happens to be a not-especially kind examination of the mega-giant\u2019s new business partner, OpenAI guy Sam Altman. Guadagnino, who\u2019s still racing to find his nearly-completed film a new home, can\u2019t comment on any of that, of course; all he\u2019d say when asked about the debacle on Italian TV on Friday<\/a> was \u201cwe are right in the middle of this situation.\u201d (While also noting that this isn\u2019t the first, or the last, time that political and financial pressures have led to these kinds of sudden shifts.) But if you want to ask the Challengers<\/a> and Call Me By Your Name<\/a>\u00a0director about AI in general, well\u2026<\/p>\n

To be fair\u2014and fittingly, given how much time he\u2019s spent thinking about Altman\u2014Guadagnino\u2019s thoughts on the matter go beyond simple accusations of water-wasting slopitude. Per Variety<\/a>, Guadagnino wasn\u2019t exactly\u00a0kind\u00a0to the technology, calling it \u201ca technological gadget\u2014and not a particularly sophisticated one, at that,\u201d and noting that it\u2019s \u201cfull of flaws\u201d while \u201cconsuming vast amounts of energy and water.\u201d But while granting that AI likely would get better, in the future, at many of the tasks acolytes like Altman are obsessively setting it to, the director said he was far more interested in the cultural shifts it\u2019s causing in people right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shot part of the film in San Francisco\u2014a wonderful city, one of the great, distinguished U.S. cities, Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s city,\u201d Guadagnino remarked. \u201cA place of great beauty but also great despair, with so many homeless people, so many people living under the influence of fentanyl, while these wonderful, silent, self-driving cars glided past them. That, to me, is the perfect image to illustrate the theme. It is a disturbing image\u2014more than just disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artificial\u00a0reportedly centers on a very busy span of four days back in November 2023, when Altman was ousted, and then un-ousted, from his CEO role at OpenAI amidst a vote of no confidence. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as the tech mogul, has been shopped around to several studios since Amazon cut bait last week; Variety\u00a0reports that MUBI is still among the biggest names still expressing interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, we reported on the surprising-if-you\u2019re-napping news that Amazon was bailing on its plans to distribute Luca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-730911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}