Los Angeles (United States), March 6. Elon Musk will be the protagonist of a documentary directed by Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”), the Oscar-winning filmmaker announced on his social networks on Monday.
The draft, which is in production, has been described as a “definitive, no-nonsense review” of the public figure, billionaire and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.
“Now is the time to paint a rigorous portrait of Elon Musk, who is undeniably one of the most influential figures of our time,” said Gibney, who was the source of other recognizable titles such as “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”. “, “Enron: the smartest guys in the room” or “Steve Jobs: the man in the machine”.
Additionally, Gibney was named in 2010 as “the most important documentary filmmaker of our time” by Esquire magazine.
More details about the project have not yet been revealed, nor which platform or digital medium will be in charge of the distribution of this work, which is produced by the companies Jigsaw Productions with Closer Media, Anonymous Content and Double Agent.
Documentary experts Stacey Offman (“Money Shot: The Pornhub Story”) and Richard Perello (“Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo”) will serve as executive producers on behalf of Jigsaw Productions.
Elon Musk regained the title of the world’s richest person last Monday with a fortune of around $187.1 billion, after temporarily losing it to Frenchman Bernard Arnault, according to the real-time billionaires list compiled by the Bloomberg agency.
His large-scale business journey began in 2002 with the sale of PayPal for $180 million, an amount he invested in establishing the companies Space X, Tesla Inc and SolarCity.
Since then, his impact has continued to grow until the technology mogul reached a greater public dimension by buying the social network Twitter at the end of 2022 for 44 billion dollars.