Alex Gibney trades his fan club membership for a Musk deep dive
The director who once seemed destined to chronicle the tech hero’s journey has apparently decided to open the autopsy kit instead.
It is not every day that a filmmaker pivots from building a pedestal to laying out a crime scene. Alex Gibney has been digging into the archives of Elon Musk, and the resulting picture is less tech-utopia and more cautionary tale.
We are talking about a mountain of internal documents and whispers from the inner circle. The narrative of the genius disruptor is getting a serious reality check, trading in the 'visionary' branding for something much messier.
Turns out, when you pull back the curtain on the world's richest man, you don't find a god; you find a man with a very expensive, very chaotic hobby. It is the kind of exposé that makes you wonder if we were all just too busy watching the rocket launches to notice the ground crumbling beneath them.
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