The first teaser trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated Elon Musk documentary “Musk” has been released.
The film will world premiere out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 8 before continuing to the Toronto International Film Festival.
In the 48-second teaser, montages of spacecrafts and astronautical devices fill the screen while voices giving varied commentary about Musk play in the background. The snippet does not give away much about the plot, but illustrates Musk’s polarizing character.
“He’s possibly the greatest living inventor. He is the real-life Iron Man. He is one of the greatest builders of all time,” the background voices say. As the montage progresses, the tone of the statements changes. “He is the greatest capitalist in history. He’s chaotic, random, capricious, manifestly cruel and selfish. He’s a fascist,” the backtrack continues.
“Elon is a nuke,” the voice in the teaser concludes as a spacecraft hits the ground and implodes, bursting into flames.
Gibney directs and produces “Musk,” joined by Jessie Deeter and Erin Edeiken for Jigsaw Productions, Dana O’Keefe for Double Agent, Joey Marra and Zhang Xin for Closer Media and Anonymous Content’s Nick Shumaker and Jessica Grimshaw. Ronan Farrow and Lawrence Wright round out the producing team.
Watch the full teaser here:
