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**HBO’s ‘Mountainhead’ Takes Aim at Tech Billionaires in New Satire**

**Park City, UT –** Hot on the heels of the Emmy-winning series *Succession*, Jesse Armstrong is back with *Mountainhead*, a new HBO film satirizing the tech world’s elite. Armstrong, known for his sharp wit and cultural commentary, is taking on the rise of tech billionaires and their impact on society.

The film stars Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Jason Schwartzman, and Ramy Youssef as a group of tech moguls gathered for a high-stakes poker weekend just as one of them unleashes AI tools with global consequences. Armstrong was inspired by the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the culture surrounding tech titans, drawing inspiration from podcasts and biographies.

Armstrong aims to capture the “confidence-slash-arrogance” of these figures, weaving in phrases and concepts from the tech world into the dialogue. While the characters aren’t direct parodies of real-life figures like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, they embody the ethos and ambition of the modern tech elite.

*Mountainhead* explores themes of unchecked power, the dangers of unchecked ambition, and the humanity (or lack thereof) of those who believe they can rewrite the world. The movie suggests that these individuals, driven by intellect and overconfidence, might just crash when they throw away all the guardrails.

The film premieres this weekend on HBO and promises to be a timely and unsettling commentary on the tech world’s influence on our lives.

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