Because the world outdoors their remoted retreat begins to go sideways, the 4 billionaires on the heart of HBO’s film Mountainhead confront their attainable roles in inflicting the occasions.
Nicely, perhaps “confront” is simply too robust. “Deny” could be higher, based mostly on a second trailer for the movie from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. When a information report says “U.N officers at the moment are overtly attributing the current uptick in ethnic rigidity to highly effective new generative AI instruments” from an organization headed by one of many 4 central characters, Venis (Cory Michael Smith).
“I simply need to say, this isn’t on you, Venis,” the gathering’s host, Souper (Jason Schwartzman), tells Venis — to which he replies, “Clearly it’s not on me. Why would you even say that?” Watch the trailer beneath.
The brand new trailer builds on an earlier clip and states somewhat extra clearly that the group — Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef additionally star — bears some accountability for the worldwide unrest. It additionally means that they see a approach out by actually shopping for a number of nations.
Mountainhead marks Armstrong’s directing debut on a function movie and his first writing credit score since Succession concluded its four-season Emmy-rich run on HBO in 2023. HBO introduced the film in January, and from there it was roughly a dash to its Might 31 premiere date. The 4 stars got here aboard in early March, and filming wrapped a few month later after capturing in Park Metropolis, Utah.
Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, Daniel Oreskes, David Thompson, Amie MacKenzie and Ava Kostia additionally star.
Armstrong wrote and directed the film and government produces with Frank Wealthy, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod and Jill Footlick.