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\nAlex Gibney\u2018s long-gestating Elon Musk documentary is finally ready for showtime. Musk<\/em>, the Oscar winner\u2019s years-in-the-making portrait of the controversial technocrat cum oligarch, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September \u2014 and it arrives at a scale perhaps befitting the world\u2019s first trillionaire: 232 minutes, just shy of four hours.<\/p>\n

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\n\tVenice artistic director Alberto Barbera revealed the selection in Rome Thursday while unveiling the festival\u2019s 2026 lineup, and he paused to make sure the audience appreciated just how much Elon has been packed into Gibney\u2019s examination. \u201cI invite you to look at the duration of the movie \u2014 four hours,\u201d Barbera said with a wry smile.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Gibney] traces the whole career \u2014 the contradictions, and the conditioning power that is centralized in the hands of a single man,\u201d the festival chief added. \u201cConsider a genius of capitalist entrepreneurship, but also a dangerous technocrat, with no moral scruples.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFew recent documentaries of such high profile have had such a long and tricky trip to screen. Gibney first revealed he was at work on the film in March 2023, billing it as a \u201cdefinitive and unvarnished examination\u201d of the Tesla, SpaceX and X chief. The director reportedly delivered a finished cut in early 2025 \u2014 only to return to the editing suite amid Musk\u2019s vocal support and financial backing of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, followed by his stint next door to the Oval Office as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As Musk continued generating controversial headlines, those following Gibney\u2019s project naturally began to wonder when and how the director would ever be able to wrap up the movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast summer, the film\u2019s backers, HBO Documentary Films and Bleecker Street, acknowledged their director\u2019s predicament, putting out a joint statement, saying: \u201cThe film continues to grow in scope as the story evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd there was still more to come\u2026 Last month, SpaceX\u2019s record-shattering IPO \u2014 the largest public offering in history, raising some $75 billion at a roughly $1.8 trillion valuation \u2014 lifted Musk\u2019s fortune to the mind-bogglingly obscene point that he is now regarded as the world\u2019s first trillionaire.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMusk has been characteristically unrestrained in his reaction to the documentary.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a hit piece,\u201d he posted on X when the project was first reported in 2023, prompting Gibney to reply: \u201cHow would you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMusk also once tweeted \u2014 \u201cGibney is a douche\u201d \u2014 to which, Gibney has said he responded: \u201cdouch\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBleecker Street will release Musk<\/em> in U.S. theaters on Oct. 16, with HBO Documentary Films holding North American television and streaming rights and Black Bear handling international sales. Gibney\u2019s Jigsaw Productions produced with Zhang Xin\u2019s Closer Media, Double Agent and Anonymous Content.<\/p>\n

\n\tGibney has spent the past three decades of his career critiquing powerful institutions and the men who run them. He won the best documentary feature Oscar for 2007\u2019s Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em>, was nominated for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/em> and won widespread critical acclaim for Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief<\/em>. He\u2019s tackled Silicon Valley icons and villains before, too, with projects like Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine<\/em> and the Elizabeth Holmes expos\u00e9 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley<\/em>. He is no stranger to the Lido, having premiered his Mikhail Khodorkovsky portrait Citizen K<\/em> there in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe 83rd Venice Film Festival runs Sept. 2-12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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