Elon Musk’s much-touted biopic receives a fair amount of backlash

Elon Musk’s much-touted biopic is receiving a fair amount of backlash all over social media.

As reported, A24 secured the rights to Walter Isaacson’s biography of the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.

A biopic on Elon Musk is reported to be in the works at New York-based studio A24 with “Black Swan”-filmmaker Darren Aronofsky as the director.

The deal was highly competitive with top studios and film-makers in contention too, according to a source familiar with the matter.

As soon as Elon Musk approved of the director, reactions started to mount on social media.

Glad Darren is doing it. He is one of the best.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2023

 

The richest man in the world is getting the silver screen treatment, netizens react to it.

We will finally see what Elon calls “production hell”.

The world will see what SpaceX and Tesla had to go through. https://t.co/DT8Tcvd5a5

— Oscar Herrera (@OscarEnjoylife) November 10, 2023

@elonmusk — what's this?…

a "biopic"??

sheesh! your ego is NEVER coming back down to earth (if it was ever really here to begin with) – is it? https://t.co/uqGH6KF5dL

— Laura Haase (@lauralynn1955) November 10, 2023

You might think that the story is over( https://t.co/JMfZcfBvJf

— Laveneya Lu (@L93190Lu) November 10, 2023

 

 

Meanwhile, the guessing game is on who would best portray the essence of the mercurial, meme-loving tech mogul on the silver screen.

In a recent Reddit thread, commenters’ top-voted casting picks for Elon Musk were: Nicolas Cage, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr. and Jesse Eisenberg (the last being a troll’s pick: Eisenberg starred as Musk rival Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network”).

Musk who himself loves a good meme and it has been suggested more than once that Bates is a bit of a doppelganger.

If there’s a movie about Elon, I want him to be played by Kathy Bates. pic.twitter.com/kfYGghBRpA

— Ravi Ahuja (@RaviAhuja20) November 25, 2022