A film about Sam Altman's OpenAI boardroom chaos is in in the works

A movie about Sam Altman's wild OpenAI week is in the works, with the chaotic 2023 saga that saw the CEO fired and rehired within just five days now heading to the big screen under acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino for

Amazon MGM Studios

. The film, titled "Artificial," has Andrew Garfield circling the role of Altman, with Monica Barbaro and Yura Borisov being considered to play former CTO

Mira Murati

and co-founder

Ilya Sutskever

respectively, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sutskever was instrumental in Altman's initial ouster.Simon Rich, known for his work on "Saturday Night Live," penned the screenplay and will produce alongside Heyday Films' David Heyman, who's behind the "Harry Potter" franchise and "Barbie." The comedic drama approach seems fitting given the almost absurd nature of the real events.Amazon is reportedly moving at breakneck speed, eyeing a summer production start with filming planned for San Francisco and Italy. The studio has already worked with Guadagnino on "Challengers" and the upcoming Julia Roberts film "After the Hunt."

The corporate drama that wrote itself

The saga dates not too long ago when the OpenAI board back in the November of 2023 lost confidence in Altman's leadership, citing safety concerns and reports of problematic behavior. New details from an upcoming book reveal that board members grew alarmed after discovering issues like Altman allegedly owning the OpenAI Startup Fund personally, while Sutskever and Murati compiled evidence of what they viewed as toxic management practices.However, the firing spectacularly backfired. Within days, nearly all OpenAI employees, including Sutskever and Murati themselves, signed a letter demanding Altman's return. The board capitulated, reinstating him as CEO while the rebels who orchestrated his removal eventually left to start their own ventures.The timing couldn't be more perfect for an AI-themed comedy-drama, and the real-life drama had all the elements of a

Silicon Valley

thriller: corporate intrigue, power struggles, and a remarkable reversal of fortune that left the AI world spinning.