Hollywood loves biopics, a genre that usually arouses a lot of attention among the public and generates numerous revenues at the box office. This 2023, without going any further, have arrived Oppenheimer, by Christopher Nolan; On November 24, it will be the turn of Ridley Scott's Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix and later the stories of Priscilla Presley, directed by Sophia Coppola, or that of Enzo Ferrari in Ferrari, directed by Michael Mann and with Adam Protagonist driver.
And if there is a man about whom a biographical story could be expected due to all the interest he arouses, we can only talk about Elon Musk, who will eventually have his own film. The richest man in the world, CEO of Tesla, founder of Space whale.
Aronofsky, director of the latter, who awarded the Oscar for best actor to Brendar Fraser, is in charge of bringing to the big screen the biography published last September by Walter Isaacson about the South African tycoon, whom he portrays as a complex and tormented, which has been coveted at full speed by Hollywood studios. The author is known for also writing about another technology CEO such as Steve Jobs, whose book was adapted into the film by Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender. And he has also written about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin.
Musk himself has spoken about the news and has shown his satisfaction with the choice of the director of Requiem for a Dream: "I'm glad that Darren is in charge. He's one of the best," he said. The film still does not have a candidate to play the billionaire and controversial 52-year-old businessman, although after the end of the actors' strike, it is expected that it will not take long to find the ideal interpreter.
On Reddit they have proposed the names of Nicolas Cage, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr., Brendan Fraser, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Broderick or Jesse Eisenberg, who already gave life to Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. However, there are those who have spoken out about the possibility of Elon Musk himself playing himself. That would be the bomb.
