Will ‘Mountainhead’ Join AOC’s Billionaire Bash-a-Thon?
A new HBO film could have been co-produced by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The 80-something socialist has been touring the country to spread his anti-oligarch agenda alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“Mountainhead,” created by “Succession’s” Jesse Armstrong, follows four tech billionaires as they unwind at a posh ski resort. Their vacation is interrupted by chilling headlines suggesting an international crisis is underway.
What happened? The trailer suggests they’re partially to blame.
One of the billionaire teases the other, “Your platform is racist and s****y,” a slam commonly used against Elon Musk. The Tesla billionaire removed Twitter’s censorious levers when he bought the platform.
The new, free speech-wary Left cried foul, while ignoring similar hate thriving on other tech platforms.
The teaser also shows the billionaires getting a call from the U.S. President. A few edits later, and we learn the Commander in Chief warned the quartet that their platforms, “inflamed a volatile situation, circulating unfalsifiable deep fakes, massive fraud, market instability.”
The uber-rich souls in the satire are played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef.
The project appears to be a snug fit for “The Office” alum.
Carell previously mocked President Trump’s space aspirations with the Netflix “Space Force” flop. He also cut a large check to help bail out violent protesters in the early days of the BLM riots.
MAX will debut the film May 31. World of Reel notes the film’s production occurred mere weeks ago, a far cry from the longer schedule most films and TV shows demand. That suggests Warner Bros. Discovery – or multiple Emmy winner Armstrong – wanted this story out ASAP.
Why?
One report says the swift release date is for Emmy-voting purposes. Could there be another explanation? Does Armstrong want to bash billionaires ASAP given the media and the Left’s current fury over Musk?
It wouldn’t be the first time a creator dictated a project’s release. Billy Ray insisted Showtime release his 2020 melodrama “The Comey Rule” before that year’s presidential campaign. The pay channel initially said no, but Ray put his foot down and changed Showtime’s collective mind.
That film pretended the Russia collusion narrative was true. What tales will be told during “Mountainhead?”
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